PROBABLY FRENCH, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN GILTWOOD PIER TABLE
PROBABLY FRENCH, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Of Neo-Gothic style, with Ciplon Sanguins d'Oran marble top, with slightly canted rectangular outline, with hollow cavetto moulded frieze filled with pierced scrolling foliage, above three Gothic arches separated by finials, the spandrels carved with foliage, the angles with four half-columns surmounted by finials, the sides with conforming arch, framing a linen-fold panelled backboard, above a close-nailed damson crushed-velvet covered platform, on a plinth base with breakfront sections, inscribed 'T570' and 'Poulain Lefur', later top, refreshments to the gilding
36 in. (91 cm.) high, 58 in. (147.5 cm.) wide, 30 in. (77 cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 9 March 2000, lot 7.

拍品專文

The sideboard, with velvet-upholstered plinth for displaying silver plate, is embellished with foliate linen-fold panels, cluster columned pilasters, cusped arches and a rich foliated freize. Its antiquarian style reflects the Gothic manner adopted in the 1840s by such architects as Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc, perhaps most spectacularly at his 'renovation' of the château of Pierrefonds near Compiègne and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.