A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY CONSOLE TABLES

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Los 29 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY CONSOLE TABLES
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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY CONSOLE TABLES

BY RENE DUBOIS, CIRCA 1765

Each with a mottled purple marble (possibly Russian porphyry) top of breakfront outline above an ormolu egg-and-dart border, the frieze fitted with a drawer mounted with ribbon-tied ormolu berried laurel leaves flanked by foliate paterae, the recessed ends fitted with acanthus leaf-scrolled ormolu mounts, raised on round tapered legs inset with ormolu flutes fitted with ormolu capitals and acanthus leaf-cast ormolu sabots joined by stretchers above ormolu-mounted feet, each with label 'Clumber No. 2282'; stamped 'I. Dubois, JME', each with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label.

32 1/2 in. (83 cm.) high, 57 1/2 in. (146 cm.) wide, 18 1/2 in. (47 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly the pair listed in the inventory of René Dubois in 1772 described as 'deux tables en console richement garnies en ébène non dorées estimées ensemble 1 200 livres'.

Possibly acquired by Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) for Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire.

Thence by descent to the Hon. Earl of Lincoln; Christie's London, 19-20 October 1937, lot 286.

With French & Co., New York.

Thelma Chrysler Foy; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 15-16 May 1959, lots 337-338.

Gisèle Rueff-Béghin (1900-1983).

Acquired from Maurice Segoura, Paris, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1987.



Literature

A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 301.

P. Arizzoli-Clementel, Georges Geoffroy, Paris, 2016, pp. 163-164.



Exhibited

New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Art Treasures, Exhibition, 1955, no. 285.



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