LOUIS XIV STYLE A Louis XIV style carved giltwood center table, Lyon, France, last quarter 19th century

surmounted by a brèche rouge marble top, metallic plaque inscribed A. Bastet , LYON, Tapissier-Décorateur, Art Ancien, Art Nouveau, Les plus beaux magasins d'ameubleuments de France, 5, rue du President Carnot to the underside

De Ricci, Seymour, Louis XIV et Régence, Librairie Grund, Paris, 1929, p. 72 and Pallot G.B., Bill, Furniture collection in the Louvre, Ed. Faton, Paris, 1993, pp. 36-39 for illustrations and a discussion on the original model.

The present table is almost identical to the early 18th century model made by the sculptor Jules Degoullons for the Château de Bercy in 1713.  With his associates, André and Mathieu Legoupil, Marin Bellan and Pierre Taupin, Degoullons was responsible for much of the carved paneling and carved furniture supplied to Charles-Henri II de Malon de Bercy, between 1712 and 1714. The table was purchased at the auction of the contents of Câteau de Bercy between July 15 and 18, 1860 by Napoleon III and placed in the national collection.  François Linke reproduced this model between 1905 and 1910.  One Linke model from the collection of Elias Meyer at 16 Grosvenor square in London, illustrated in C. Payne, Linke, p. 244-5, and sold Christie's New York, May 24, 1993, lot 338.