AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

细节

A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted marble-topped mahogany centre tables
After the model by Adam Weisweiler, Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Each with rectangular Maurin vert marble top with eared corners, above a panelled frieze cast with ribbon-tied floral garlands, centred to the front by a central drawer decorated with a mask flanked by winged sphinxes, above basket-bearing caryatid tapering supports joined by a shaped stretcher with central pierced basket, on spirally-fluted feet, bearing the inscription Millet
30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 32½ in. (83 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep (2)

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品专文

These tables are based on a model by Adam Weisweiler (d.1820) for Marie-Antoinette at the Château de Saint-Cloud (illustrated in A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers: The Art of the Ebéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, Paris, 1989, p. 389). During the last quarter of the 19th century, the model was very much in fashion and was widely copied, both in exact and simplified versions, by Parisian cabinet-makers. An example by the Maison Fourdinois was shown at the Exposition des arts du bois organised in 1882 by the Union centrale des Arts Decoratifs.