Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS THREE-TIER ETAGERES
Lot 305 The Baron Per Adolf Tamm Ormolu and Cut-Glass Table Service (lots 299-310)

A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS THREE-TIER ETAGERES

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830

Closed2 October 2013

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A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS THREE-TIER ETAGERES
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830
Each with facetted circular graduated dishes supported by a central column, surmounted by a laurel-bound ring finial, on a circular base with three various putti, the stepped base decorated with scrolling vines, raised on paw-feet, three glass dishes later
25½ in. (65 cm.) (2)

Ordered by Baron Per Tamm in Paris in the 1830s;
Thence by descent.

Specialist note

Comparable examples of étagères are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, München 1986, nos. 5.16.14 and 5.16.8. A further pair, attributed to Thomire, was sold in these sale rooms, 9 December 2004, lot 46 (GBP28,680).