A Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted Table

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A Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted Table

A Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted Table

Dimensions: H: 30 in / 76 cm | W: 34 in / 86 cm | D: 19.5 in / 49 cm

PRICE: £45,000

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A Louis XVI Style Ormolu-Mounted Table
By Edmond Kahn of London & Paris

After the model by Adam Weisweiler
for Marie-Antoinette's bedroom at Château de Saint Cloud

Surmounted by the original inset fleur-de-pêcher marble top, the table dressed with mercury gilt bronze mounts, supported on ormolu legs with female caryatids terminating in toupie feet and joined by an interlaced stretcher bearing a gilt bronze basket, the frieze set with ormolu floral garlands, a central breakfront panel opening to reveal an oak-lined drawer. The reverse of the bronzes marked 'E. Kahn.'
French, circa 1895

The eighteenth century prototype of this table was delivered in 1784 for Marie Antoinette's use at Château de Saint Cloud, where it remained until the French Revolution. Almost half a century later, the table was acquired by the French Empress Eugénie, who placed it in her Salon Bleu at the Tuileries, where she would often entertain guests. Later in the nineteenth century, some of the greatest Parisian cabinetmakers such as Sormani and Dasson created their own versions of the table.

E. Kahn & Cie. was a company that produced and sold the most celebrated French eighteenth-century models after models by Weisweiler, Stockel, Benneman, Cressent, Gaudreaux and Riesener. He is also known to have produced and sold the Edwardian furniture fashionable at that time in London. In England, his company was advertised as E. Kahn & Co. Ltd., 'Manufacturers of Furniture and Upholstery, specialists in lacquered furniture, wholesale & export,' with premises at 6-10 St. Andrew St. and 18-21 Charlotte St. and with a factory at 19-51 Gough St. In Paris, he was located at 84, avenue Ledru-Rollin in the 12th arrondissement. To Kahn's credit, François Linke allowed one of his most important creations, the grand bureau, index number 550 (for which he won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle) to be illustrated in his London brochure.

Comparative literature:

Payne, Christopher. Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century. Château de Saint-Rémy: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2018, p. 215, for a discussion of the 19th century versions.

REF No. 10323

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