Sale 1983
New York
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9 April 2008
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE OHIO COLLECTION
Price realised
USD 29,800
Estimate
A NAPOLEON III ORMOLU, MAHOGANY AND SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN OCCASIONAL TABLE IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY The top inset with a rectangular yellow Tallandier-ground plaque painted in the English style with pheasants, over a conforming frieze centred on the front and reverse with a similarly painted plaques within tasseled frames, flanked by recessed panels painted with loose floral bouquets, the sides similarly decorated, on patera-headed fluted supports cast with basket-bearing putti, joined by a 'X'-shaped stretcher with pine-cone finial, the porcelain signed TC 31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep
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A similar table with blue-ground porcelain plaques was sold at Sotheby's New York, The Marshall B. Coyne Collection, 6 June 2001, Lot 226 ($21,450).
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