Lot 168
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A LATE LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. AND MRS. FRANCIS D. FOWLER, WASHINGTON, D.C.
A LATE LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE

CIRCA 1765-1770

Details
A LATE LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED CONSOLE TABLE
CIRCA 1765-1770
With demilune mottled grey marble top above in-curved supports with hoof feet joined by a Classical urn stretcher, with black ink inscription under marble 7825, and paper label printed GARDE-MEUBLE MAPLE/MONSIEUR CHINOUX and inscribed in blue chalk 15, top of console with old paper label inscribed 37
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high, 52¼ in. (133 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
Provenance
Madame Jacques Balsan (née Consuelo Vanderbilt), Paris and New York [by repute].
Acquired from Dalva Brothers, Inc., New York, 13 January 1972.

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The daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Smith Belmont, Consuelo became a celebrated debutante at her parents' Newport residence, Marble House, where in August of 1895 she met Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. She married the Duke that autumn and returned to England to live at Blenheim Palace. The marriage was a notoriously unhappy one. She separated from the 9th Duke in 1905 and was officially divorced in 1920. The following summer she married the French aviator and her close friend, Jacques Balsan. Settling in France, they divided their time between the splendid 17th century Château de Saint-Georges-Motel, near Eure, Normandy and the hôtel Marlborough, Paris, both of which they filled with exceptional French furniture and works of art from the ancien regime. Fleeing to America and Palm Beach in 1940, much of Colonel and Madame Balsan's collection was recorded for posterity by L.-H. Prost, Collection de Madame et du Colonel Balsan, Paris, privately printed, circa 1930.

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