A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PURPLEHEART, SATINWOOD AND CROSS-BANDED PARQUETRY INLAID TABLE A ECRIRE, in the style of Jean-Henri Reisener, the shaped rectangular top with a pierced three-quarter gallery, inlaid with a parquetry pattern and with boxwood, harewood and ebony lines, the frieze fitted with a drawer and centred by an ormolu-outlined satinwood panel, the lock escutcheon cast with laurels and flanked by a laurel-wreath drop handle to each side, stamped to the underside 341, the sides and back also with ormolu-outlined panels on four square-tapering legs headed by mounts of vine-entwined thyrsi and with laurel-cast chandelles, above an overhanging foliate-cast shoulder with foliate pendants below, on square-shaped acanthus-cast sabots, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PURPLEHEART, SATINWOOD AND CROSS-BANDED PARQUETRY INLAID TABLE A ECRIRE, in the style of Jean-Henri Reisener, the shaped rectangular top with a pierced three-quarter gallery, inlaid with a parquetry pattern and with boxwood, harewood and ebony lines, the frieze fitted with a drawer and centred by an ormolu-outlined satinwood panel, the lock escutcheon cast with laurels and flanked by a laurel-wreath drop handle to each side, stamped to the underside 341, the sides and back also with ormolu-outlined panels on four square-tapering legs headed by mounts of vine-entwined thyrsi and with laurel-cast chandelles, above an overhanging foliate-cast shoulder with foliate pendants below, on square-shaped acanthus-cast sabots, late 19th Century
27¼in. (69.3cm.) wide; 29¾in. (75.6cm.) high; 19¼in. (49cm.) deep

拍品专文

Although marginally larger, the overall design of this ormolu-mounted table à écrire bears a strong similarity to a writing table which once belonged to Marie-Antoinette, now in the J.A.Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, made by Jean-Henri Reisener (maître-ébéniste 1768-1806), probably supplied to the Petit Trianon around 1780. The Waddesdon desk has an elaborately inlaid marquetry shelf between the legs matching a more complex top writing surface as well as floral marquetry inlaid panels to the frieze, where this one has plain panels; however, the ormolu mounts of vine-entwined thyrsi, floral pendants and acanthus-cast sabots are virtually identical.