ID 820170
Lot 564 | A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND GILT BRASS-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD AND BOULLE MARQUETRY CENTER TABLES
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 80 000
POSSIBLY BY LOUIS LE GAIGNEUR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a molded square brass-inlaid rosewood top in premier-partie and contre-partie, bordered with brass stringing and rosewood crossbanding, within a square with foliate spandrels, and within an outer border ornamented with foliate scrolls, the corners with wheel medallions, all within an entrelac-and-rosette collar over and egg-and-dart paneled frieze with a central drawer inlaid with boxwood banding and mounted with anthemion-garlanded nymph masks, supported on a turned columnar stepped shaft with stiff-leaf, egg-and-dart, and gadrooned socle, the square stepped plinth with further wheel-medallions, raised on winged paw feet with brass castors, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label, the plinths adapted
29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm.) high, 22 3/4 in. (57.8 cm.) wide, 22 3/4 in. (57.8 cm.) deep
Provenance
Possibly supplied to Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (d.1843) for Eridge Castle, Sussex, in the early 19th century, or acquired by Guy Larnach-Nevill, 4th Marquess of Abergavenny (d.1954) for Eridge Place, East Sussex, around 1937.
‌Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 18 November 1993, lot 170.
Literature
C. Hussey, 'Eridge Park, Sussex – II’, Country Life, 30 September 1965, p. 819, fig. 4, illustrated in the corridor between the entrance and the garden hall.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Brass, Wood, Rosewood |
| Art style: | Regency |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Brass, Wood, Rosewood |
| Art style: | Regency |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
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