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A French gilt-bronze mounted tortoiseshell and ebony 'Boulle' marquetry table by Henry Dasson, 1878


UK: Greenford Park WarehouseRestricted Species

Estimate

250,000 - 400,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

of rectangular shape, the granite marble top inset with a gadrooned border, above a frieze decorated with marquetry foliage in brass and pewter against tortoiseshell and ebony, above eight square legs headed by ram’s heads and terminating with spiral turned toupie feet, the legs joined by serpentine stretchers centred by a crowned orb with fleurs-de-lys, adorned throughout with foliate gilt-bronze mounts, stamped twice to frame 1878 / HENRY DASSON / 18, numbered in white chalk 264/1


95cm. high, 270cm. wide, 132cm. deep; 3ft. 1 3/8 in., 8ft. 10 ¼ in., 4ft. 4in.

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Almost certainly commissioned in Paris by Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), circa 1878;

Pictured by J.J. Thomson in the Back State Room of Hertford House, circa 1890;

Upon the death of Sir Richard Wallace, inherited by his wife Lady Wallace (d.1897);

With Sir John Murray Scott (1847–1912);

An important Private Collection.

Wallace Collection Archives, London, Hertford House inventory and valuation, Vol. 1, 1890 [GB 1807 HWF/INV/23, p.122 and GB 1807 HWF/INV/24, p.373].

Wallace Collection Archives, London, Valuations of the contents of Hertford House (not left to the nation), also of Castle House, Lisburn and at Baker Street, Warehouses and elsewhere, 1897. [GB 1807 HWF/INV/25].

Wallace Collection Archives, London, Second schedule of the Declaration of Trust, appended to a letter of 29th February 1912 from D. S. MacColl to HM Treasury [AR/38H].

Peter Hughes,The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, Vol.1, 1996, p.53 (illustrated).

Christopher Payne, Paris Furniture:The Luxury Market of the 19th Century, 2018, p.315 (illustrated).