A MATCHED PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BURR THUYA CONSOLE TABLES

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A MATCHED PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BURR THUYA CONSOLE TABLES
Each with later demi-lune brocatelle marble top, the frieze decorated with panels of berried foliage centered by an associated Svres biscuit plaque decorated with figures around a brazier, with one long drawer flanked by two hinged drawers, on fluted column supports above a bowed undertier with ebony stringing, on toupie feet, partially remounted, adapted to form a pair
33in. (85.5cm.) high, 54in. (137cm.) wide, 18.1/3in. (46.5cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

One sold from the Kraemer Collection, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28-29 April 1913, lot 170 (at that time with mirrored back and white marble top). Bought by the dealer Duveen.

The other sold from the collection of Victor Rothschild, 148 Piccadilly, London W.I. sold Sotheby's, London, 19 April, 1937, lot 183 (at that time with white marble top), formerly in Lady Rothschild's boudoir. Bought by the dealer Bensimon.

The Hon. Mrs. Reginald (Daisy) Fellowes (both consoles)

Anonymous sale, Etude Couturier Nicolay, Paris, 20 October 1983, lot 78.

Lot Essay

DAISY FELLOWES
Editor of Harper's Bazaar and dubbed by Vogue the best dressed woman in the world, Daisy Fellowes epitomised good taste between the thirties and her death in 1962. The daughter of the duc Decazes, she married firstly Prince Jean de Broglie and secondly in 1919 the Hon. Reginald Fellowes (1884-1953), second son of the second Baron de Ramsey. She was also American by descent, being the granddaughter of Isaac Singer. Among her various homes in London, Paris, Geneva, as well as a country house in England, the most famous was her villa at Cap-Martin, near Monaco, known as Les Zoraides. She entertained lavishly both here and on her 190 foot yacht Sister Anne which she moored in Monaco and lent to various distinguished friends such as the duke and duchess of Windsor and Winston Churchill.