CIRCA 1720

細節

A REGENCE OAK CONSOLE TABLE
CIRCA 1720
The later molded Sarrancloin marble top above the pierced frieze with a central lady's mask within C-scrolls and flowers, on deeply scrolling legs headed by a grotesque mask and with pierced floral garlands, joined by a waved X-shaped stretcher with fantastical female creatures facing a central patera platform with scallop-shell and on dolphin feet emerging from the stretcher, numbered '8959' in black ink, replacements to the pierced carving of frieze
32 in. (82 cm.) high, 63 in. (160 cm.) wide, 28½ in. (72 cm.) deep

來源

Rodolphe Kann (1844 - 1905).

出版

Catalogue de la Collection Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907, p. 81, cat. 208.
S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 172.

拍品專文

Rodolphe Kann began collecting in 1880, with the purchase of the first of 11 paintings by Rembrandt; during the next 20 years he built an important collection of French Furniture and Works of Art as well as Old Master paintings, which he purchased, following his own judgement, in Paris and London. Kann's collection was displayed in his house on the Avenue d'Iina in Paris. After his death the collection, which had been inherited by his two sons, was sold en bloc in August 1907 for almost £ 900,000 to Duveen Brothers, who opened the Kann house in Paris to important clients. These included the American collectors Benjamin Altman, J. Pierpont Morgan and John G. Johnson; it was through them that much of Kann's collection entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and other public collections in the United States.

This console table with its dolphin feet finds an interesting comparable work in a Louis XIV oak stool that was in the collection of A. Carlhian (G. Janneau, Le Siège en France du Moyen Age à Nos Jours, Paris, 1948, figs. 50 - 51).