PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION (LOTS 260-273)

A FRENCH ORMOLU AND SEVRES PORCELAIN-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE

MID-19TH CENTURY

Details

A FRENCH ORMOLU AND SEVRES PORCELAIN-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE
MID-19TH CENTURY
Inlaid overall with nailed trellis pattern, the circular top with central 18th Century porcelain plaque with floral bouquet and with pierced basket-weave gallery above a frieze-drawer with 18th Century rectangular floral porcelain plaque flanked by frieze-panels centered by an Apollo's mask with foliate scrolls, on three rectangular supports with simulated fluting and joined by a circular stretcher on cabriole legs headed by a floral mount and terminating in foliate scroll sabots, with stencil French & Co number '13954', bearing spurious stamp 'M.CARLIN' and further stamp now erased to underside of top
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance

with French and Company, New York.

Lot Essay

This elegant porcelain-mounted gueridon, with its basket-weave galleries, is based on examples by Martin Carlin now in distinguished collections such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Musée du Louvre, Paris, and the Wrightsman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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