$8,500
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: May 20, 2014 11:00:00 AM EDT
......pierre-philippe thomire The circular malachite top with gilt bronze mounted edge over tapering gilt bronze scroll legs each mounted with mythological bronze figures ending in paw feet, the whole raised on a cast iron quadrapartite base centered with a malachite urn.
H: 29 1/2, D: 39 3/4 in.Provenance: The collection of Dr. Alex Titomirov, Great Falls, Va.
A related example sold Christie's London, February 1st 2011, lot 232.
Literature:
J.P. Samoyault, Meubles entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 2004, p. 248, fig. 176, for an illustration of the model.