A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND CITRONNIER CENTRE TABLE

This elegant centre table, designed in the goût Weisweiler, is a famous model created during the Louis XVI revival of the 1860s and known to have been made through the latter 19th century by Henry Dasson and Paul Sormani.
An example of Dasson's rendition, dated 1867 and formerly in the collection of Pierre Lecoules, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 148. An 1884 example, also by Dasson, was sold at Christie's, London, 29 March 2007, lot 96 (£216,000). A further example by Sormani sold, Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lot 265 ($122,500), and another, by Dasson, sold Christie's, King Street, 15 March 2012, lot 135 (£115,250).