Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 86. A pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany and satinwood parquetry pedestals, late 19th century, after Jean-Henri Riesener.

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A pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted mahogany and satinwood parquetry pedestals, late 19th century, after Jean-Henri Riesener

No reserve

No ReservesUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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November 19, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Bid

1 GBP

Lot Details

Description

of tapering oblong form, the portoro marble tops over Apollo mask friezes and panels of scrolling foliage with cornucopia, urns and lyres within canted corners applied with leafy volute brackets on splayed lion's paw feet and incurved oblong platforms with toupie feet


148cm high, 54cm wide, 33.2cm deep; 58 1/4in., 21 1/4in., 13in.

Sotheby's, London, 31 May 1991, lot 195.

The present pair of pedestals are designed after the celebrated model made circa 1785, surmounted by a clock adorned by cloud-born putti, attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener and now in the permanent collection of the Musée du Louvre (inv. nr. OA 5501). This was one of the most popular of the 18th century models, admired and copied by the finest cabinetmakers of the late 19th century.


Other 19th century examples after this model were sold, including a pair at Christie's, London, 9 February 2023, lot 190.

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