A French carved giltwood centre table after the model by Jules Degoullons in Louis XIV style, late 19th century

with a Patricia green rectangular marble top with projecting corners above a frieze carved with c-scroll reserves enclosing flowerheads centred by a boss amongst scrolling flowers and foliage, each pierced leg centred by a stylised scallopshell with two addorsed female terms with berried laurel wreaths carved with acanthus and terminating in scrolls joined by an x-form stretcher centred by a foliate finial on toupie feet, the back and sides similarly carved to the front; regilt

This impressive table is in overall very good conserved condition and is ready to be placed. Colour of gilding more golden and less greenish and more natural and attractive than in the catalogue photograph. It has very minor chips to the marble top which are hardly noticeable.
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Comparative Literature:
Ed. Jannic Durand, Michèle Bimbenet-Privat, Frédéric Dassas, Decorative Furnishings and Objets d'Art from Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2014, p.165-166, no. 26.

This beautifully carved and gilded centre table with a rare Patricia green marble top is based on the celebrated model dating to around 1714 by the Artisans de la Société pour les Bâtiments du Roi (Jules Degoullons and partners), after the model by the architect Jacques de La Guêpière, now in the Louvre, (Mobilier National,1901, OA 5049) and illustrated, op. cit., p. 165.

The design of the original model of this table with its freize with openwork aprons on three sides and the double legs connected by an x-form stretcher is reminiscent of the styles of the 1690's and some of the stands illustrated in Livre de tables qui sont dans le appartements du roy sur lesquels sont posés les bijoux du Cabinet des médailles, which were engraved by the celebrated ornamentalist Pierre Le Pautre in around 1700. The table was on the second floor of the château de Bercy in the `bedroom facing the river' and was valued at 240 livres. According to the authors, op. cit., `Its stately nature, confirmed by its costly valuation, clearly marked it as an item destined for the château's ceremonial bedchamber'. It had beloned to Charles-Henry II de Malon who renovated the family seat the château de Bercy when he after he inherited it in 1708.

A 19th century table of the same model with an incarnat turquin marble top  was sold The Opulent Eye, 500 Years-Decorative Arts europe, Christie's, London, 15th March 2012, lot 86 (£39,650).