PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. & MRS. RICHARD SCHILLING, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS (LOTS 441-462)

A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY VIDE POCHE

BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878

Details

A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY VIDE POCHE
BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878
The rectangular top with ormolu-moulded gallery and central spring-release fall-front, on fluted legs with acanthus-cast sabots joined by a pierced stretcher with an entwined-dolphin finial, the underside stamped henry Dasson 1878 and one dolphin signed henry Dasson
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high; 25½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) deep

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 3 November 1984, lot 494.

Lot Essay

The present vide poche is based on the model by Adam Weisweiler, now residing at the Louvre. Two additional examples, also by Dasson and dated 1877 and 1882, respectively, were sold Christie's Paris, 8 November 2005 ($9,398) and Sotheby's New York, Property from the Collection of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, 4 November 2005, lot 322 ($33,600).

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