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Lot 28: A  GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED  MAHOGANY  TABLE  `À  L'ANTIQUE'    DESIGNED  BY  JACQUES-LOUIS  DAVID  (1748-1825)  EXECUTED  BY  GEORGES  JACOB  (1739-1814)LOUIS 

Est: £200,000 GBP - £300,000 GBP
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 04, 2012

Item Overview

Description

the  circular  top  above  a  gilt-bronze  band  on  a  triform  plinth  base  with  fluted  canted  stiles  surmounted  by  a  stylised  anthemion,  the  sides  with  a  flaming  torch  flanked  by  scrolling  acanthus  enclosing  a  patera  the  griffin  feet  flanking  a  stylised  anthemion  on  a    platform  base  with  projecting  angles
77cm  high,  107cm  wide;  2ft.  6¼in.,  3ft.  6in.

Artist or Maker

Literature

Alvar González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi: Arte di corte del XVII e del XVIII secolo, 1986, Milan, Vol. II, p. 54, fig. 82-83-84, illustrated.

Provenance

By descent in Jean-Louis David's (1748-1825) family until 1955
A brass plaque inside the actual pedestal states that the table was left to David's great-granddaughter by David's grandson, Jules David Chassagnol, thence by descent
Private European Collection

Auction Details

Treasures, Princely Taste

by
Sotheby's
July 04, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK