A carved giltwood centre table Louis XIV, late 17th/early 18th century

with an associated brown and grey marble top, the front and rear with a shaped frieze centred by a female mask,on a trelliswork ground carved with sunflowers and scrolling folaite motifs on cabriole legs carved with masks, sunflowers and bellflowers joined by an x-form stretcher on hoof feet; regilt

Sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 26th - 27th May 1980, lot 845
Then sold Sotheby's, New York, 11th November 2000, lot 146

This impressive table has been re-gilt, there are exposed areas of red undercoat and areas of exposed gesso where chips have occured to extremities. The frieze has splits to some lower scrolled components. On one short side this split is evident running horizontally through the gilt gesso. It is not possible to determine whether the hooves are later or are merely restored and covered by this later gilt finish. There are also some chips to the carved detail which are to be entirely expected.
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