Live Auction 10689The Opulent Eye - 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND CITRONNIER CENTRE TABLE
Lot 194 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND CITRONNIER CENTRE TABLE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed11 March 2015

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GBP 37,500

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND CITRONNIER CENTRE TABLE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The circular brocatelle d'Espagne marble top within a stiff leaf-cast frame above a panelled frieze set with four trophies emblematic of the seasons, on alternating male and female term supports joined by a pierced loop stretcher, on spirally-fluted tapering feet
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

This elegant centre table, designed in the goût Weisweiler, is a famous model created during the Louis XVI revival of the 1860s and known to have been made through the latter 19th century by Henry Dasson and Paul Sormani.
An example of Dasson's rendition, dated 1867 and formerly in the collection of Pierre Lecoules, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 148. An 1884 example, also by Dasson, was sold at Christie's, London, 29 March 2007, lot 96 (£216,000). A further example by Sormani sold, Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lot 265 ($122,500), and another, by Dasson, sold Christie's, King Street, 15 March 2012, lot 135 (£115,250).