Online Auction 23287Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis
A RESTAURATION ORMOLU SURTOUT DE TABLE
Lot 162PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON

A RESTAURATION ORMOLU SURTOUT DE TABLE

POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed18 June 2024

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU SURTOUT DE TABLE
POSSIBLY NORTH EUROPEAN, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Modeled in three sections encircled by a gallery with seated winged female figures supporting fruit-filled baskets beside a dove, the gallery divided by eight shallow tazze on leaf-cast baluster stems, further figures to each corner stand atop a globe raising wreaths in each hand and fitted with glass bud vases all above a frieze mounted with rosettes and raised on leaf-cast feet, the mirror plates a later replacement
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) high, 33 ¼ in. (84.5 cm.) wide, 86 ½ in. (220 cm.) long

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 December 2005, lot 288.
Property from an Important Private Collection; Christie's, London, 15 July 2020, lot 249.

Specialist note

This lovely model of surtout draws on the oeuvre of ciseleur-doreur Pierre-Philippe Thomire. His delicate ormolu creations featured elegantly draped Classical figures and naturalistic flora and fauna that graced the tables of the highest society at the start of the 19th century. For some examples by Thomire which may have inspired this design, see Christie's, London, 6 July 2023, lot 28 and The Cooper Hewitt Museum, Accession Number 1991-31-1-a/ww.

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