Lot Essay
Nicolas Petit (1732-1791), maître in 1761.
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BY NICOLAS PETIT, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MAHOGANY GAMES TABLE
BY NICOLAS PETIT, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular brown gilt-tooled leather-lined reversible top with a baize-lined playing-surface to the reverse, enclosing a horn and stained horn-inlaid tric-trac board, above a panelled frieze with two small drawers to each side, flanked by mille-raie panels, on fluted tapering legs headed by trailing-husks and terminating on toupie feet, with 21 ebonised disks, 20 boxwood disks and one green-stained disk, stamped 'N. Petit' to the reverse, with remains of a paper label 'Marquis de Auvoir
27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high; 47½ in. (121 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
BY NICOLAS PETIT, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular brown gilt-tooled leather-lined reversible top with a baize-lined playing-surface to the reverse, enclosing a horn and stained horn-inlaid tric-trac board, above a panelled frieze with two small drawers to each side, flanked by mille-raie panels, on fluted tapering legs headed by trailing-husks and terminating on toupie feet, with 21 ebonised disks, 20 boxwood disks and one green-stained disk, stamped 'N. Petit' to the reverse, with remains of a paper label 'Marquis de Auvoir
27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high; 47½ in. (121 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
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