BY BOIN-TABURET, CIRCA 1900

Details

A French ormolu and green marble surtout de table
By Boin-Taburet, circa 1900
Modelled as a formal garden lake, the balustraded gallery intersected by swagged urns, flanking lower tier pools to the sides, each with figures of mer-children blowing conch shells and bearing laurel sprigs, flanking displays of fish and crustacea, the ends with further dropped tiers modelled as fountains, with dolphins spouting water amidst rushes, stamped to the underside BOINTABURET A PARIS, 29564, and further stamped 9
7in. (17.8cm.) high; 36in. (91.5cm.) wide; 53½in. (135.8cm.) long

Provenance

Collection of Monsieur de Bestegui, Plazzo Labia, Venice, thence to the present collection.

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Lot Essay

Boin-Taburet, the orfevrerie founded in Paris in c.1875, was famed for his recreations of Rococo styles: Exhibiting in the 1889 Paris and 1891 Moscow Exhibitions. In the former exhibition he was awarded a Gold Medal for a table centrepiece after a design by Juste-Aurele Meissonnier (1695-1750). For further information see John Culmes Nineteenth Century Silver, pages 216-7.

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