Sale 12455
London
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6 July 2016
Price realised
GBP 23,750
Estimate
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.
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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).
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