MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE, with a sloping-corner top in a gray - Lot 160

Lot n° 160
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Result : 7 040EUR
MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE, with a sloping-corner top in a gray - Lot 160
MAHOGANY WRITING TABLE, with a sloping-corner top in a gray satin-finish diamond-pattern marquetry (re-veneered at a later date), resting on a base that opens to reveal a drawer, decorated with fragments of 18th-century porcelain plates, the side panels decorated with foliage resting on tapered legs with fluting, spindles, and gilded bronze beads; a printed label from the Baron Double collection inscribed “Ex Museo Double” and another printed label inscribed “347”; (the porcelain plaques were added in the first half of the 19th century; bronze frames are missing). Marked by Jean Henri RIESENER, a cabinetmaker who received his master’s certificate in 1768. Louis XVI period. H: 72 cm, W: 54 cm, D: 30 cm Provenance: Former collection of Baron Léopold Double, his sale in Paris on May 30, 1881, lot 347. Baron Léopold Double’s collection, begun around 1845 and assembled very quickly (likely largely complete by 1850), was the subject of one of the most significant auctions of the 19th century in 1881. This table was lot No. 347 in the May 30, 1881, auction and was sold for 6,100 francs. Particularly drawn to royal provenance—and especially to furniture and objects that had belonged to Queen Marie-Antoinette—Baron Double had likely acquired this table with the famous porcelain-inlaid furniture commissioned for the queen in mind. The addition of the porcelain plaques, likely shortly before his acquisition, illustrates a timeless practice aimed at enhancing existing furniture. Expert: Mr. Pierre-François DAYOT
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