Lot 85
85
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, PARCEL-GILT AND CALAMANDER-CROSSBANDED BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, PARCEL-GILT AND CALAMANDER-CROSSBANDED BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, PARCEL-GILT AND CALAMANDER-CROSSBANDED BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, PARCEL-GILT AND CALAMANDER-CROSSBANDED BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, PARCEL-GILT AND CALAMANDER-CROSSBANDED BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE

CIRCA 1815

Details
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, PARCEL-GILT AND CALAMANDER-CROSSBANDED BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
CIRCA 1815
The twin-flap top with three navette-shaped cartouches with stylised anthemion and scrolled foliate ornament, above two frieze drawers and two false drawers to the reverse further inlaid with fleur-de-lys, on a turned and gadrooned urn-shaped column and scrolled supports on a concave-sided platform and scrolling quadrapartite base, the acanthus capped legs on brass covered castors
28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 64 ½ in. (163 cm.) wide, open; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired by Sir Sydney Barratt from Temple Williams Ltd., London, 27 June 1960 (as probably by Louis Constantin Le Gaigneur of Queen Street) and by descent.
The Barratt Collection - From Crowe Hall, Bath; sold Christie's, London, 16 December 2010, lot 133.
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Lot Essay


This elegant table typifies the revived taste for Boulle furniture among English cognoscenti of the 1820s as popularised by such influential collectors as the Prince Regent, later George IV, and William Beckford. The demand for Boulle furniture (or 'Buhl', as it was known) was catered to by a range of antiquarian dealers in London who not only dealt in old furniture but would also adapt 18th-century Boulle pieces, or even make examples in the Boulle style. Such dealers and cabinet-makers included Louis Constantin le Gaigneur, who termed himself a 'French Buhl Manufacturer' and worked almost exclusively for the Prince Regent, later George IV, and his circle (a pair of Louis XIV-style 'Boulle' bureaux plats were delivered to the Royal Pavilion, Brighton in 1815, RCIN 35289), Thomas Parker of Air St., Piccadilly, who in 1813 supplied a pair of Boulle marquetry coffers-on-stands to the Prince Regent, which remain in the Royal Collection (RCIN 21624), and later the firm of Town and Emmanuel who traded between 1830-49 from 103 Bond St, 'Manufacturers of Buhl Marqueterie'

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