A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, BY E.-GUILLAUME-EDMOND LEXCELLENT, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, BY E.-GUILLAUME-EDMOND LEXCELLENT, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery above a frieze with stiff-leaf-cast encadrement and drawer set to the front and back with a winged-putti acanthus-escutcheon and to the sides with masks, the angles with relief-cast foliate clasps, on ringed-cylindrical tapering legs joined by a shaped-tier, with filled- fluted sabots, the underside stencilled 'LEXCELLENT 12 Rue BREGUET PARIS' and twice stamped 'LEXCELLENT PARIS'
29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 22½ in. (57 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The present table is a direct copy of Jean-Henri Riesener's original supplied in 1780 for Marie-Antoinette's cabinet intérieur at Versailles.

E.-Guillaume-Edmond Lexcellent (b. 1834) first opened a shop at 46, rue de Charenton in 1867. He relocated to 8, rue Breguet where the firm continued in business until 1928. He exhibited 'des meubles de luxe de divers styles' at the 1855, 1867 and 1889 Expositions Universelles, where he was awarded a médaille de bronze as well as a médaille d'argent.

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