Live Auction 19022The Private Collection of Jayne Wrightsman
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND LINE-INLAID TABLE TRICOTEUSE
Lot 80

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND LINE-INLAID TABLE TRICOTEUSE

19TH CENTURY

Closed14 October 2020

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND LINE-INLAID TABLE TRICOTEUSE
19TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular galleried top with fall front raised on trestle supports joined by an oval medial shelf
28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34.5 cm.) deep

Acquired from Michel Meyer, 1983.

Specialist note

This elegant tricoteuse is inspired by the celebrated example supplied by Jean-Henri Riesener to Queen Marie-Antoinette for her cabinet at the Château de Saint-Cloud and is now at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, see N. Gasc and G. Mabile, Le Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1991, p. 38. An identical table by Adam Weisweiler from the London collection of Mrs. Wrightsman sold Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 2010, lot 135 ($170,500).