CIRCA 1720

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A REGENCE GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular mottled-brown inset marble top within a strapwork and foliate-carved edge, the pierced frieze with a central scallop-shell, on scroll-headed cabriole legs carved with acanthus and floral garlands, the similarly carved feet joined by an X-form stretcher with central hexagonal platform carved with a floral bouquet, the marble later
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 33 in. (84 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Provenance

Christie's, New York, 26 April 1990, lot 164.

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Lot Essay

Designed in the Louis XIV 'antique' manner, this table de milieu reflects the influence of Jean Bérain (d. 1711), who succeeded as Déssinateur de la chambre et du Cabinet du Roi in 1674. Its distinctive acanthus-wrapped in scrolled feet, stepped stretchers and foliate-wrapped trusses, however, correspond more closely to the oeuvre of Jacques-François Blondel (1705-74), the nephew of the architect François Blondel (1683-1756), such as featured on his design for torchères pour la décoration des appartements published as plate 94 in De la Distribution des maisons de plaisance, vol. 2, of 1737-8. Such feet existed earlier as evidenced by a late 17th Century engraving entitled Dames jouans au jeu des portiques by Jolin, now in the Biblothèque Nationale, Paris (N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, tom. 1, p. 415, fig. 1482).

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