14th Jul, 2021 10:00 EST
The Gilded Age
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A Fine Sèvres Style Porcelain-Inset Gilt-Bronze Mounted Onyx Side Table
Early 20th century
The circular top inset with a large circular plaque painted to show an 18th century lady at a desk reading music, signed 'P. Juéry' within gilt bronze border, surrounded by nine smaller oval portraits of noble ladies, each titled beneath the image, the cylindrical column mounted within three large acanthus scrolls united by floral swags raised on tripartite base with inset guilloche frieze, on castors.
H: 32 1/2, D: 21 in.
Provenance
Collection of Robert & Barbara Safford, Vaux Hill, Audubon, Pennsylvania.
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, September 25, 2013, lot 63.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Private Collection, Long Island, New York.
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000
The circular top inset with a large circular plaque painted to show an 18th century lady at a desk reading music, signed 'P. Juéry' within gilt bronze border, surrounded by nine smaller oval portraits of noble ladies, each titled beneath the image, the cylindrical column mounted within three large acanthus scrolls united by floral swags raised on tripartite base with inset guilloche frieze, on castors.
Provenance
Collection of Robert & Barbara Safford, Vaux Hill, Audubon, Pennsylvania.
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, September 25, 2013, lot 63.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Private Collection, Long Island, New York.
