ID 1345039
Lot 96 | A LOUIS XVI AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE, MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY WRITING/DRESSING TABLE
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1775
The hinged rectangular top inlaid with a musical and floral trophy, lifting to a reveal a mirrored interior above a drawer to each end, a leather-lined writing side to the front and two further drawers below, their pulls cast as laurel wreaths, each side with a parquetry panel flanked by crossbanding, on cabriole legs with scrolling acanthus sabots and wood casters, stamped three times to the underside, J.H. RIESENER
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high, 20 in. (51 cm.) wide, 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) deep
Provenance
Comte Patrice de Vogüé, Vaux-le-Vicomte; Christie’s, Monaco, 17 June 2000, lot 363 (FF 4,877,500 = $682,850).
Acquired from Perrin, Paris.
| Artist: | Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Wood, Tulipwood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI, Transitional period of China |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Tables |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
| Artist: | Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Wood, Tulipwood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI, Transitional period of China |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Tables |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
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