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    Sale 5915

    THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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    26 February 1998

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    Lot 432

    A French ormolu-and lacquer-mounted, amboyna and mahogany table de milieu

    BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1890

    Price realised

    GBP 6,900

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    A French ormolu-and lacquer-mounted, amboyna and mahogany table de milieu
    By Henry Dasson, Paris, Dated 1890
    The rectangular top inset with a rouge marble within an egg-and-dart moulding, above the frieze with a concealed drawer, mounted with Chinoiserie lacquer panels, stamped to the underside HENRY DASSON & Cie/1890, on fluted tapering legs joined by an undertier with a lambrequin frieze, on toupie feet
    20 in. (51 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 14½ in. (37 cm.) deep

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    Lot Essay

    Another table of this model by Dasson, dated 1888, was sold in these rooms, 29 February 1996, lot 100. A pair, again by Dasson and dated 1888, were sold by Wapler, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 4 July 1996, lot 594. A virtually identical table is illustrated in C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1989, p. 242.

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