A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS INLAID, TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY AND EBONY CONSOLE TABLE

This console table is after a drawing of 1700-10 attributed to André-Charles Boulle, ébéniste, ciseleur, doreur et sculpteur du Roi, which is now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (reproduced in P. Verlet, Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Siècle Français, Paris, 1963, p.34, fig.2). Variants of the table were produced by Boulle and later, in the mid-18th century, by revisionist ébénistes responding to popular demand, such as Adrien Dubois (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, Vol. II, pp. 752-761, no. 160 & 161). The present table, being of the larger size, with female masks heading the legs and marquetry top depicting a 'Triumphal Chariot' is a late-19th century replica of a variant of the model derived from examples such as the console formerly in the collection of Lady Salmond, sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, June 22, 1986, lot 554. A 19th-century replica, directly comparable to the present table, sold Property from a Distinguished Connecticut Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 9 June 2017, lot 35 ($122,500).