A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE A ECRIRE ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-HENRI RIESENER CIRCA 1780 The shaped top surrounded by a one third pierced scrolling leaves ormolu gallery cast with leaf tips, with a later brass inlaid band, above a mechanical sliding and reversing adjustable reading stand, above two frieze drawers, the inner surface to both later relined, the larger with a sliding green-leather writing surface, the smaller drawer with a writing compartment fitted with gilt-metal and cut-glass writing implements, the breakfront frieze centred by interlacing scrolling acanthus leaves, centred by a floral escutcheon, the front frieze flanked by two rosette-filled ring handles, with leaf tipped encadrements , on square tapering legs with stringing and headed with floral garlands, terminating in acanthus sabots , stencilled with inventory number '177' to the underside and mounted with collector's plate to the underside engraved 'K' in a lozenge and '212'; originally with a mechanism linked to screens ascending and descending 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 25 ¾ in. (65.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep Provenance The collection of Monsieur George Blumenthal, 1932, lot 169. The collection of Madame Dolores Kilvert, New York. The René Fribourg Collection: III, his sale, Sotheby's, London, part I, 28 June 1963, lot 224.
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE A ECRIRE ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-HENRI RIESENER CIRCA 1780 The shaped top surrounded by a one third pierced scrolling leaves ormolu gallery cast with leaf tips, with a later brass inlaid band, above a mechanical sliding and reversing adjustable reading stand, above two frieze drawers, the inner surface to both later relined, the larger with a sliding green-leather writing surface, the smaller drawer with a writing compartment fitted with gilt-metal and cut-glass writing implements, the breakfront frieze centred by interlacing scrolling acanthus leaves, centred by a floral escutcheon, the front frieze flanked by two rosette-filled ring handles, with leaf tipped encadrements , on square tapering legs with stringing and headed with floral garlands, terminating in acanthus sabots , stencilled with inventory number '177' to the underside and mounted with collector's plate to the underside engraved 'K' in a lozenge and '212'; originally with a mechanism linked to screens ascending and descending 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 25 ¾ in. (65.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep Provenance The collection of Monsieur George Blumenthal, 1932, lot 169. The collection of Madame Dolores Kilvert, New York. The René Fribourg Collection: III, his sale, Sotheby's, London, part I, 28 June 1963, lot 224.
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