A FRENCH `JAPONISME` ORMOLU-MOUNTED PALISANDER CENTRE TABLE

Lot 51
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ID 992779
Lot 51 | A FRENCH 'JAPONISME' ORMOLU-MOUNTED PALISANDER CENTRE TABLE
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
A FRENCH 'JAPONISME' ORMOLU-MOUNTED PALISANDER CENTRE TABLE

BY EDOUARD LIEVRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1880

The rounded rectangular top inset with Sarrancolin des Pyrénées marble above a pierced and scrolled fretwork frieze, on hipped cabriole legs headed by lion-mask clasps and joined by a carved stretcher centred by a pierced dome, with a paper label inscribed '78', the reverse of one angle mount stamped with an interlaced 'EL'

30 1/2 in. (77 cm.) high; 48 1/2 in. (123 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably Count Ernst von Moÿ de Sons (1852 -1922) and his wife Countess Sophie Arco de Stepperg (1868-1952), Palais de Moÿ, Theatinerstrasse 24, Munich .

Thence by descent until sold Guy Graf Moÿ de Sons; Sotheby's, Schloss Monrepos, 14 October 2000, lot 708.

Acquired from Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, Paris.

Au Bord Du Lac: An interior by François-Joseph Graf, Christie's, London, 26 January 2022, lot 77.



Literature

Optima propagare Édouard Lièvre: Créateur de meuble & objets d’art, Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, Paris, 2004, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

Catalogue des Meubles d’Art de la Succession de feu de M. Édouard Lièvre, 21-24 March 1887, no. 60 (a table of this model).

'Édouard Lièvre', Connaissance des Arts, N° 228, Paris, 2004, S. 28 ff.

Optima propagare Édouard Lièvre: Créateur de meuble & objets d’art, Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, Paris, 2004, pp. 62-63 (the table in the Musée d'Orsay OAO1162).

C. Payne, Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century, 2018, p. 431 (another example illustrated).

A. Masseau and D. Masseau, L'Escalier de cristal. Le luxe à Paris 1809-1923, pp.110-117.



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Roxane Rodriguez, Optima Propagare Edouard Lièvre, Mobilier & Objects d'Art du XIX siècle, 16 September - 16 October 2004.



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