CIRCA 1775, IN THE MANNER OF MARTIN CARLIN, PROBABLY ADAPTED FROM A TABLE A BRODER WITH A LATER TOP AND SOME REMOUNTING

细节

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD GUERIDON
CIRCA 1775, IN THE MANNER OF MARTIN CARLIN, PROBABLY ADAPTED FROM A TABLE A BRODER WITH A LATER TOP AND SOME REMOUNTING
The shaped eliptical top surmounted by a pierced ormolu gallery above a frieze containing four cedar-lined drawers and a hexagonal support, raised on shaped tripod legs, the whole outlined with ormolu borders and fitted with ormolu mounts cast with shell motifs, flowerheads and foliage, the top reveneered and originally with a vertical broder shaft, partially remounted including the gallery, the mounts regilt
24¾ in. (62.9 cm.) high; 22 in. (55.9 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39.4 cm.) deep

来源

Mrs. Anne Ford Johnson, sold Sotheby's New York, 25 April 1998, lot 330.
Acquired from Galerie Segoura, Paris.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品专文

The base of this table is of identical design to that sold from the collection of Lord Revelstoke at Christie's London, 28 June 1893, lot 287. The Revelstoke table - whose circular top was inset with eight Sèvres porcelain plaques around a central stem which supported the broder drum - came from the collection of the Hon. Miss Eden and, purportedly, that of Marie-Antoinette. Although the latter provenance is all too often a 19th century embellishment, Miss Eden was a direct descendant of the diplomat William Eden, created Lord Auckland in 1793, who received Sèvres porcelain and other lavish gifts from Louis XVI in 1787. A table by Carlin in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, reputedly a direct gift to Lady Auckland from Marie-Antoinette in 1786, was also mounted with Sèvres plaques dated 1778 (Catalogue of the Jones Collection, no. 43, pl.27).