Live Auction 7464Un hôtel particulier du Faubourg Saint-Germain The Collection of The Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel
A CEYLONESE IVORY-INLAID SPECIMEN WOOD, EBONY AND PARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
Lot 160

A CEYLONESE IVORY-INLAID SPECIMEN WOOD, EBONY AND PARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE

MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed22 November 2007

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GBP 41,300

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A CEYLONESE IVORY-INLAID SPECIMEN WOOD, EBONY AND PARQUETRY CENTRE TABLE
MID-19TH CENTURY
The circular tilt top inlaid with a radiating spiral of specimen woods and engraved ivory with a foliate carved boarder on a reeded and scroll-carved column, with a concave-sided platform on foliate bun feet
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 48½ in. (123 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

A related table was displayed in the Ceylon Court of the Paris 1855 International Exhibition and discussed in the Catalogue of the Natural and Artificial Products of Ceylon, 1855.