A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE A ECRIRE

STAMPED L.MOREAU, CIRCA 1780

细节

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE A ECRIRE
Stamped L.MOREAU, Circa 1780
The rectangular top above a panelled frieze with beaded surrounds, one end with a fitted drawer set with silvered wells, on two pierced lyre-shaped ends each centered by a brass-inlaid fluted column with applied foliate capital surmounted by a molded cornice and large leaf, the tapering fluted stretcher centered by a knop flanked by acanthus-sheathed balusters, on splayed feet, the stretcher probably replaced
28in. (71cm.) high, 25¼in. (64cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep

来源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1995, lot 211 ($51,750).

拍品专文

Louis Moreau, maître in 1764.

A table à rognon displaying related trestle feet, stamped by Bernard Molitor (mâitre in 1787) is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 582.