ID 1438548
Lot 116 | ATHÉNIENNE D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 15 000 – 25 000
DERNIER QUART DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
En bois mouluré, sculpté, peint et doré, étain repoussé et bronze doré, le couvercle ajouré et amovible, la ceinture à frise de feuilles d'eau et de rosaces dans des entrelacs, le piétement tripode en enroulement et appliqué de larges feuilles de laurier, la base triangulaire centrée d'une pomme de pin, la base simulant le marbre ; la prise et les feuilles remplacés
H. 94 cm. (37 in.) ; D. 40 cm. (15 ¾ in.)
Provenance
Vente Christie's, New York, 21 octobre 2010, lot 497.
Literature
Bibliographie comparative:
F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman collection, volume I, Furniture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Greenwich, 1966, pp. 103-105.
D. O. Kisluk-Grosheide, W. Koeppe et W. Rieder, European furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: highlights of the collection, New York and New Haven, 2006, pp. 166-167, fig. 97.
S. Legrand-Rossi, Le mobilier du musée Nissim de Camondo, Dijon, 2012, p. 173.
Further details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PEWTER AND LACQUERED-WOOD ATHENIENNE, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
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Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
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Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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