A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE BRASS, PEWTER AND TORTOISESHELL- INLAID EBONY STAND

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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE BRASS, PEWTER AND TORTOISESHELL- INLAID EBONY STAND
Inlaid overall in contre-partie with scrolling flowers and foliage, the later breakfront red, green and white marble top above three frieze drawers, on four serpentine supports, the back with four panels flanked by conforming supports, on a breakfront platform, on later toupie feet with gadrooned collars, losses to the inlay, part of the front top moulding replaced in simulated ebony, reconstructed in the early 19th Century and incorporating some later elements
36½ in. (93 cm.) high; 38¾ in. (98.5 cm.) wide; 17¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

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Inlaid in Boulle marquetry on a silvery ground of pewter in the Louis XIV 'Roman' or 'arabesque' manner popularised by Jean Bérain (d. 1711), this antiquarian marble-topped pier-table was originally conceived to support a cabinet. Its festive tablet, symbolising Peace and Plenty, with Bacchic lion-footed plinth displaying a stately flower-vase amongst vine-twined Roman foliage, corresponds to that found on Louis XIV medailler cabinets by André-Charles Boulle (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 84, fig. 38), whilst the table's 'tablet' front likewise corresponds to that featured in a drawing for a stand-supported medaillier also attributed to Boulle (d. 1732) (Gillian Wilson, 'Boulle', Furniture History Society Journal, 1972, pl. 47b). Moreover, whilst the serpentined legs, with voluted trusses imbricated with foliated paterae, also relate to those of a Louis XIV dressing-table in the J. Paul Getty Museum (C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1993, no.58, pp. 46 and 47), the flowered acanthus-whorl mounts relate to those on an early 19th Century jewel-chest stand in the Wallace Collection, discussed by P. Hughes in 'The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture', II, London, 1996, no. 146.