A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND EBONISED TORCHERES
BY ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE LATE 17TH CENTURY, RESTORED BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR CIRCA 1787-89
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND EBONISED TORCHERES BY ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE LATE 17TH CENTURY, RESTORED BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR CIRCA 1787-89 Decorated in contre partie Boulle marquetry, each with a circular top with a central floral medallion surrounded by scrolls and with a moulded rim with three satyr masks, above florally-garlanded Ionic capitals with acanthus sprays and turned spreading shaft with husk-trailed simulated fluting, on a foliate-wrapped cap and a baluster on hoof feet with foliate decoration and ram's masks to three sides, above a tripartite base with three inscrolled florally-decorated feet, headed by a palmette and divided by Apollo's masks in a scrolling cartouche, terminating in a foliate-decorated volute foot, each stamped 'LEVASSEUR' and 'JME', restored by Levasseur following the 1787 sale, at that time the ormolu rims and Satyr masks of the rims of the tops replaced and the arrangement of the mounts to the lower baluster vase element of the shaft slightly altered, one floral swag to the capital later 59½ in. (151 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) diam., the tops
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND EBONISED TORCHERES
BY ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE LATE 17TH CENTURY, RESTORED BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR CIRCA 1787-89
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND EBONISED TORCHERES BY ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE LATE 17TH CENTURY, RESTORED BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR CIRCA 1787-89 Decorated in contre partie Boulle marquetry, each with a circular top with a central floral medallion surrounded by scrolls and with a moulded rim with three satyr masks, above florally-garlanded Ionic capitals with acanthus sprays and turned spreading shaft with husk-trailed simulated fluting, on a foliate-wrapped cap and a baluster on hoof feet with foliate decoration and ram's masks to three sides, above a tripartite base with three inscrolled florally-decorated feet, headed by a palmette and divided by Apollo's masks in a scrolling cartouche, terminating in a foliate-decorated volute foot, each stamped 'LEVASSEUR' and 'JME', restored by Levasseur following the 1787 sale, at that time the ormolu rims and Satyr masks of the rims of the tops replaced and the arrangement of the mounts to the lower baluster vase element of the shaft slightly altered, one floral swag to the capital later 59½ in. (151 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) diam., the tops
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