A FRENCH BRASS-INLAID AND BRASS-MOUNTED EBONISED AND MAHOGANY TWO-TIER SIDE TABLE by Wattringue à Lille, the rectangular white marble top above a panelled frieze inlaid with interwoven circles and supported upon square tapering female caryatids standing upon a rectangular platform with inset white marble slab, the backboard with central rectangular mirrored plate flanked by tapering quivers above a further frieze with interwoven gothic arcading, upon tablet-headed square tapering legs and claw feet, stamped three times WATTRINGUE and once WATTRINGUE À LILLE, the underside of the slab with pencil inscription CHEZ RASH... MARBLE, late 19th Century

细节

A FRENCH BRASS-INLAID AND BRASS-MOUNTED EBONISED AND MAHOGANY TWO-TIER SIDE TABLE by Wattringue à Lille, the rectangular white marble top above a panelled frieze inlaid with interwoven circles and supported upon square tapering female caryatids standing upon a rectangular platform with inset white marble slab, the backboard with central rectangular mirrored plate flanked by tapering quivers above a further frieze with interwoven gothic arcading, upon tablet-headed square tapering legs and claw feet, stamped three times WATTRINGUE and once WATTRINGUE À LILLE, the underside of the slab with pencil inscription CHEZ RASH... MARBLE, late 19th Century
37¼in. (94.5cm.) wide; 57¼in. (145.5cm.) high; 17¼in. (44cm.) deep

拍品专文

The form of this marble-topped and mirrored étagère, deriving from the early 19th Century drawer-fitted bonheur-du-jour, with its antique ornament comprising Egyptian-caryatid 'herm' supports, relates to furniture patterns published in Pierre La Méssangères Collection de Meubles et Objets de Gout 1802

Its antique form and fretted-ribbon inlay corresponds to the 'Empire revival' style manufactured in the 1890s by firms such as Messrs Edwards and Roberts of London (see F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p.248)