A LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED AND BRASS INLAID EBONY STAND, CIRCA 1780

Property from the Estate of Andrew Hartnagle
A LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED AND BRASS INLAID EBONY STAND, CIRCA 1780

stamped E LEVASSEUR
Etienne Levasseur (1721-1798), maître in 1766
height 10 ½ in.; width 21 in.; depth 10 in.
26.7 cm; 53.3 cm; 25.4 cm

Condition Report:
In good condition overall. Old repairs to age cracks and patches to veneers with a few very minor losses, and scattered oxidation and rubbing to gilding and slight lifting to brass inlay in one or two places. One corner mount with an inherent casting hole beneath chin and a few cracks in the bronze sabots,

Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, 27 October 1990, lot 33

Dorothy and Wendell Cherry Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 16 March 2012, lot 223