AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND AMARANTH MARBLE-TOPPED CENTRE-TABLE
AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The eared rectangular rubané Campan marble top above a panelled frieze with flower garlands, the central field with foliate-scrolls and sphinxes flanking an Apollo mask and fronted by a central drawer, on tapering legs headed by basket-bearing caryatids, joined by an ornamentally-shaped stretcher centred by a pierced basket
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 32 in. (81.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The present lot is after the celebrated dressing-table by Adam Weisweiler, delivered in 1784 by the famous Parisian marchand-mercier Daguerre to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, at a cost of 3260 livres, and subsequently placed in Marie-Antoinette's Cabinet intérieur at the Château de Saint-Cloud. It was later brought by Empress Eugènie to the Tuileries Palace and placed in her audience room, the salon bleu.

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