Live Auction 742219th Century Furniture, Sculpture , Works of Art and Ceramics
A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AMETHYST AND MARBLE-TOPPED CENTRE-TABLE
Lot 148

A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AMETHYST AND MARBLE-TOPPED CENTRE-TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed27 September 2007

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AMETHYST AND MARBLE-TOPPED CENTRE-TABLE
IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top inset with amethyst panels framed by a border of rouge griotte marble with an acanthus-cast rim, above a frieze with central panel mounted with winged sphinxes amongst scrolls concealing a drawer to one side, flanked by panels of ribbon-tied foliate and fruit swags and acanthus patera, the sides each with winged sphinxes amongst scrolls, on square tapering legs headed by capitals and mounted with fruiting vines, joined by a shaped stretcher centred with a pierced basket
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 39½ in. (100.5 cm.) wide; 24 in. (64 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The present table is based on the celebrated dressing-table made 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 by Parisian cabinet-makers, in both exact and simplified versions. The key difference to this example, other than the distinctive amethyst top, is that the legs are headed by stepped capitals, as opposed to basket- bearing caryatids.