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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED END-CUT ELM, FRUITWOOD, BIRDS-EYE MAPLE AND MAHOGANY GUERIDON

CIRCA 1815-20, POSSIBLY GRENOBLE

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED END-CUT ELM, FRUITWOOD, BIRDS-EYE MAPLE AND MAHOGANY GUERIDON
CIRCA 1815-20, POSSIBLY GRENOBLE
The circular top crossbanded with kingwood, with central parquetry of end-cut elm, on three baluster column supports each with stiff-leaf ormolu capital and socle, on concave-sided triangular plinth and bun feet with inset castors
30½ in. (77 cm.) high; 24½ in. (63 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Purchased by George Byng Esq. M.P. (d.1847) in Paris 1823 and by descent.

Literature

'List of Furniture, Porcelain, Paintings & C., purchased by George Byng Esq., for Wrotham Park, 1816-43', '1823 Round Table inlaid wood T.u.. legs 250 Francs'
Wrotham Park 1847 Inventory, 'BACK DRAWING ROOM 15.0.0 1 richly decorated circular marqueterie table shaped & inlaid satinwood table ormolu-mounted.'

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The use of unusual veneers in this striking bois de bout technique, more often called ronce d'olivier, is characteristic of the oeuvre of the celebrated Hache dynasty of cabinet-makers, established in Grenoble since the end of the 17th century. For more examples of this technique see R. Fonvieille, La Dynastie des Hache, Grenoble, 1974, p.108.

A related cylinder bureau with this technique, stamped by the Tyrolean cabinet-maker Jean-Philippe Feurstein working for Christophe-André Hache, was sold at Christie's New York, 23 October 1998, lot 131.

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