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A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE
- EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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    £15,000 - £25,000
  • ($22,740 - $37,900)

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Sale 7900
A View from the Spanish Steps - The Collection of Maria Angiolillo
15 July 2010
London, King Street

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A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The later eared rectangular Portor marble top above a flower filled trellis frieze centred by a female mask flanked by pierced acanthus, on stepped tapering legs headed by scrolled capitals, hung with husk-chains and fronted by masks, joined by elaborate 'X'-shaped stretchers centred by an octagonal boss with flower finial, converted from a console table, the back frieze later
33¾ in. (86 cm.) high; 52 in. (132 cm.) wide; 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep

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The impressively architectural form of this console table, with tapering uprights, elaborately carved apron with central mask and geometric frieze relates closely to tables illustrated by the dessinateur Pierre Le Pautre in his Livre de tables qui sont dans les apartements du Roy sur lesquelles sont poses les bijoux des Cabinet des Meédailles (published soon after 1689) . This work illustrated a series of giltwood consoles used to display the king's magnificent collection of silver, and replaced a suite of melted down silver furniture. Other closely related tables in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris are illustrated in S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Regence, Stuttgart, 1929, p.74 and exhibited in Louis XIV Faste et Décors, cat. no. 101.

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