A CHARLES X ORMOLU CENTRE TABLE
CIRCA 1820-30
The rectangular mirrored top with pierced palmette gallery, above a double frieze of scrolling vine leaves, on X-shaped acanthus leaf supports headed by winged swan's heads and joined by an acanthus-wrapped stretcher, the floriform feet raised on castors
27 ½ in. (70 cm.) high; 13 ¼ in. (33.5 cm.) deep; 23 ¾ in. (60 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute, Mariá Isabel, Dowager Queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1848), and thence by descent in the del Balzo family.
This side table is identical to one sold from the collection of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 14-17 March 2011, lot 92 (18,750 Euros).