拍品 142
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, BOIS CITRONNIER AND FRUITWOOD PARQUETRY TABLE DE CHEVET
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, BOIS CITRONNIER AND FRUITWOOD PARQUETRY TABLE DE CHEVET

ATTRIBUTED TO GODEFROY DESTER, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, BOIS CITRONNIER AND FRUITWOOD PARQUETRY TABLE DE CHEVET
ATTRIBUTED TO GODEFROY DESTER, CIRCA 1780
Inlaid overall with floral trellis pattern, the tooled green leather-lined oval top with a pierced gallery, above a pair of doors enclosing a plain interior with a marble shelf flanked by ribbon-tied foliage, the sides with carrying handles, on square tapering legs headed by husk-trails and terminating in block feet, with brass caps
33¼ in. (84.5 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 15¾ in. (40 cm.) deep
來源
Alfred E. Pearson, sold Sotheby's, London, 19 May 1967, lot 224.
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拍品專文

Godefroy Dester, maître in 1774.

Exquisite little tables decorated with floral trellis parquetry in light woods like this example were a speciality of Dester and his contemporaries Mathieu-Guillaume Cramer (maître in 1771) and Roger van der Cruse dit Lacroix ('RVLC', maître in 1749).
The same distinctive stylised flower-filled trellis marquetry, so typical of Dester's oeuvre, can also be found on a commode and a secrétaire à abattant en suite, which were sold from the collections of Lord Hillingdon at Christie's, London, 29 June 1972, lots 80 and 81 (illustrated in A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, London, 1989, pp. 330-331).