BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, SYCAMORE AND JAPANESE LACQUER CENTER-TABLE
BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878
The shaped top inset with a gilt-tooled brown leather surface, over a conforming case frieze set to the front with a central spring-activated lacquer drawer and flanking short drawers, the reverse similarly decorated with lacquer panels, the sides applied with hanging floral garlands, on capital-headed fluted legs joined by a pierced stretcher and festooned urn, the underside of the carcass twice stamped HENRY DASSON 1878, the central drawer edge signed henry Dasson.1878
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 56¼ in. (143 cm.) wide, 28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) deep

Provenance

A Private Collection, Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 186.

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Lot Essay

Dasson almost certainly acquired this model of table as part of the stock he bought for 14,000 francs from the widow of the ébéniste Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen (d. 1871). The exact model made by Winkelsen, with Sèvres biscuit porcelain plaques as opposed to the lacquer panels used here, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 636.

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