A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND AMARANTH, BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD, BOIS CITRONNIER AND FRUITWOOD
Details
The shaped demi-lune moulded marble top above a frieze fitted with a drawer, decorated with ribbon-tied drapery swags within rope-twist borders, the uprights headed by ram's heads above guilloche motif, flanked by laurel swags, above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with a marquetry fan decorated with flowers, and with trellis marquetry to the corners, the concave sides with panels inlaid with trellis marquetry, on tapering chamfered legs terminating in tapering square sabots, stamped twice A. WEISWEILER, probably spurious, reconstructed and reveneered 34.6/8 in. (881⁄2 cm.) high; 39.6/8 in. (101 cm.) wide; 18.2/8 in. (461⁄2 cm.) deep
Provenance
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 18 November 1967.
Details
The shaped demi-lune moulded marble top above a frieze fitted with a drawer, decorated with ribbon-tied drapery swags within rope-twist borders, the uprights headed by ram's heads above guilloche motif, flanked by laurel swags, above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with a marquetry fan decorated with flowers, and with trellis marquetry to the corners, the concave sides with panels inlaid with trellis marquetry, on tapering chamfered legs terminating in tapering square sabots, stamped twice A. WEISWEILER, probably spurious, reconstructed and reveneered 34.6/8 in. (881⁄2 cm.) high; 39.6/8 in. (101 cm.) wide; 18.2/8 in. (461⁄2 cm.) deep
Provenance
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 18 November 1967.
