PROPERTY FROM A NOBLE COLLECTION (LOTS 401 - 447)

A MATCHED PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS CITRONNIER AND GREEN-STAINED PARQUETRY TABLES EN CHIFFONIERES

ONE STAMPED 'G.DESTER' AND 'JME', CIRCA 1780, THE OTHER POSSIBLY OF LATER DATE

细节

A MATCHED PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS CITRONNIER AND GREEN-STAINED PARQUETRY TABLES EN CHIFFONIERES
ONE STAMPED 'G.DESTER' AND 'JME', CIRCA 1780, THE OTHER POSSIBLY OF LATER DATE
Each inlaid overall with flowerhead-filled trellis, the rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery above three short drawers, fitted with a green leather-lined writing-slide and wells to the 18th century table, the angles with husk-trails above square tapering legs joined by an undertier with pierced gallery and terminating in brass caps and castors
29½ in. (75 cm.) high, 15½ in. (40 cm.) wide, 13½ in. (34 cm.) deep (2)

来源

Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 1983.
with Maurice Segoura, Paris.

出版

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 261.

拍品专文

Godefroy Dester, maître in 1774.

Exquisite small tables decorated with floral trellis parquetry in light woods like this pair, were a speciality of Dester and his contemporaries Mathieu-Guillaume Cramer (maître in 1771) and Roger van der Cruse dit Lacroix (maître in 1749). A virtually identical example was sold from the collection of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore, Bucks., Sotheby's, house sale, 25 May 1977, lot 441, while another virtually identical table was sold anonymously Christie's, London, 12 June 2003, lot 1079.