Lot 466
466
AN ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD CIRCULAR JARDINIERE
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AN ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD CIRCULAR JARDINIERE

BY MELLIER & CO, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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AN ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD CIRCULAR JARDINIERE
BY MELLIER & CO, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
With crossbanded and quarter-veneered panels on slender cabrioile legs with paw feet, stamped several times to the underside 'MELLIER & CO LONDON'
34in. (86cm.) high, 20in. (51cm.) diameter
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Lot Essay

Mellier & Co, of 2 Frith St, near Soho Square, and later Margaret St, advertised themselves as 'specialists in the rich decorative styles of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'. They became best known for their fine reproductions of antique French furniture and were among the English manufacturers who exhibited at the 1904 St Louis International Exhibition.

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