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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, SYCAMORE AND JAPANESE LACQUER CENTER-TABLE
Lot 177 PROPERTY FROM AN OHIO ESTATE (LOTS 134-205)

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, SYCAMORE AND JAPANESE LACQUER CENTER-TABLE

BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878

Closed15 April 2011

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, SYCAMORE AND JAPANESE LACQUER CENTER-TABLE
BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878
The shaped top inset with a gilt-tooled brown leather surface, over a conforming case frieze set to the front with a central spring-activated lacquer drawer and flanking short drawers, the reverse similarly decorated with lacquer panels, the sides applied with hanging floral garlands, on capital-headed fluted legs joined by a pierced stretcher and festooned urn, the underside of the carcass twice stamped HENRY DASSON 1878, the central drawer edge signed henry Dasson.1878
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 56¼ in. (143 cm.) wide, 28 3/8 in. (72 cm.) deep

A Private Collection, Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 186.

Specialist note

Dasson almost certainly acquired this model of table as part of the stock he bought for 14,000 francs from the widow of the ébéniste Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen (d. 1871). The exact model made by Winkelsen, with Sèvres biscuit porcelain plaques as opposed to the lacquer panels used here, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 636.