A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY WORK-TABLE

LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节

A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID MAHOGANY WORK-TABLE
Late 18th early 19th Century
The canted rectangular hinged lid with central roundel inlaid with a flowerhead and with satinwood banding, enclosing a cedar-lined interior with two removable trays, each with various compartments and concealing to the back four short drawers and a well, the frieze with geometric banding and flowerheads and with pull-out trays to the sides, above a tapering body with simulated fluting and a long drawer, on scrolling legs joined by a three-quarter pierced galleried undertier terminating in foliate paw sabots, minor losses to banding, the escutcheon replaced
23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide; 29 in. (75cm.) high; 18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) deep

来源

Serge Roche et Rotel.

出版

G. Janneau, Le Meuble Léger en France, Paris, 1952, pl. 274

拍品专文

This work-table or table à ouvrage en coffret has a rectangulr cut-cornered lid inlaid with an Apollo sunflower medallion, while sunflowers lso embellish its ribbon-guilloche frieze above its basket-like sarcophagus whose hollowed sides are inlaid with trompe l'oeil flutes. Its distinctive Grecian-scrolled legs terminating in Bacchic lion paws also feature on a table aà déjeuner illustrated in G. Janneau, Le Meuble Leger en France, Paris, 1952, fig.211, while a pttern for this type of table appears in La Mesangère, plate 193 (ibid., fig.274).