A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLES

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£ 70 000
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21.09.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 45 | A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLES
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS-HONORÉ GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER, CIRCA 1810

Each with rouge griotte moulded marble top above a frieze centred by a lozenge and flanked by a pair of medallions, on cylindrical supports headed by palmettes, with mirrored back flanked by a pair of pilasters on a plinth base, the marble tops with restorations

34 1/4 in. (102 cm.) high; 63 3/4 in. (162 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53 cm.) deep





Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned for Aimé Jacques Marie Constant de Moreton de Chabrillan (1780-1847), Chamberlain to Napoléon, for his château de Digoine, Burgundy.

Comte Pierre de Croix (1886-1930), château de Digoine, Burgundy, (Billiard Room) almost certainly acquired with the château in 1908 and thence by descent until sold;

Beaussant Lefèvre, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 22-23 March 2012, lot 349.





Literature

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXème siècle, Paris, p. 275.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

P. Marmin, 'Le château de Digoine', Pays de Bourgogne, no. 60, 1968.

P. Erlanger, Merveilles des châteaux de bourgogne et de Franche-Comté, Paris, 1969, p. 190-197.

M. Gauthier, Histoire générale et particulière du comté de Charolais, Moulins, 1973.







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