Live Auction 2435500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, including Oriental Carpets
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND SYCAMORE CENTER-TABLE
Lot 134 PROPERTY FROM AN OHIO ESTATE (LOTS 134-205)

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND SYCAMORE CENTER-TABLE

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed15 April 2011

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND SYCAMORE CENTER-TABLE
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top set with a gilt-tooled green leather writing surface, above a frieze applied with scrolling acanthus and centered to the front and reverse with a relief-cast plaque depicting cavorting putti, the front fitted with a drawer, the sides with scrolling foliage and centered by female masks, on tapering fluted legs and leaf-cast feet
29½ in. (75 cm.) high, 47¼ in. (120 cm.) wide, 27 1/8 in. (69 cm.) deep

A Private Collection: Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 103.

Specialist note

This ormolu-enriched table is derived from the celebrated table des Muses supplied in 1771 for Louis XVI's Garde-Meuble by Jean-Henri Riesener, now housed at the Petit Trianon, Versailles. While the present example has been outfitted as a writing table, Riesener's original design for the elaborate marquetry top depicts the figures of Urania and Calliope with various astrological and poetic attributes.