SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, COMMISSIONED FOR THE DE BAILLET-LATOUR FAMILY

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A FLEMISH OAK CONSOLE TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, COMMISSIONED FOR THE DE BAILLET-LATOUR FAMILY
The apron carved with a coat-of-arms, with later rouge languedoc marble top
30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high, 57 in. (145 cm.) wide, 29 in. (73.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Commissioned by the de Baillet-Latour family.
Acquired from Axel Vervoordt, Belgium.

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Lot Essay

The apron of this unusual table is carved with the arms of the de Baillet-Latour family. The de Baillet-Latour's were a prominent aristocratic family whose main seat from 1662 was the Château Latour at Virton, Belgium. The present lot was probably commissioned by either Ernest Christophe Baillet-Latour (1668-1732), president of the Great Council of Mechelen in 1716 or Francois-Xavier-Joseph Baillet-Latour (d. 1748), who was resident in the Duchy of Gelre. The family line became extinct in 1980.

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