A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE

LATE 18TH 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JEAN DÉMOSTHÈNE DUGOURC

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE
Late 18th 19th Century, in the manner of Jean Démosthène Dugourc
The eared rectangular breccia marble top above a pierced mirrored frieze carved with scrolling foliage and centred by crossed cornucopia issuing a floral swag and with laurel-leaf swags tied at the centre, the sides similarly decorated but with two floral swags, each corner with an Egyptian herm with imbricated front, above a tapering panel with entwined laurel-leaves and the sides scrolled and issuing a tassle, on a plinth and claw feet, stamped eight times 'J' to the inside blocks
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 43½ in. (110.5 cm.) wide; 27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

This richly sculpted table, with tassled herms and laurel-festooned cornucopiae issuing fruit-garlands, reflects the Egyptian or Pharaonic style promoted by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (d. 1778) and adopted in the 1780s by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, under guidance of architects such as Jean Démostène Dugourc (d. 1829), Dessinateur de Garde-Meuble de la Couronne. Its prototype, the pair executed in 1787 for the Galerie des Grands Meubles of the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble, Paris, are at the château de Fontainebleau (E. Williamson, Le Mobilier National, Paris, 1883, vol. II, fig. 83).

A centre table of identical design was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 20 June 1985, lot 50.