LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details

**A LOUIS XVI PROVINCIAL BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONIZED TRIC-TRAC TABLE
late 18th century
The rectangular removable top inset with black leather writing surface, the reverse lined with green leather, over two recessed game compartments inlaid for game of tric-trac, flanked by panelled surface and pull-out leather-lined writing slides, above two small fluted drawers, the reverse similarly fitted, on later turned tapering fluted legs with toupie feet, with a painted inventory number on the front 70.763, with two printed paper labels M. Voruz de Vaux 635 Park Avenue New York
28½in. (72.5cm.) high, 44½in. (113cm.) wide, 22½in. (57cm.) deep

Provenance

The Collection of Henry Francis du Pont at Winterthur, sold in these Rooms, 14 October 1994, lot 234

Lot Essay

A related tric-trac table by Joseph Gengenbach, known as Canabas is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 1989, p. 147, fig. B.
Voruz de Vavoc has a renowned antique dealer and decorator who supplied du Pont with many of the pieces for his residences in New York and Winterthur.