HENRY DASSON, PARIS, 1825 - 1826, A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH ORMO...

Estimate

£3,000 - £5,000

HENRY DASSON, PARIS, 1825 - 1826, A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE
The rectangular rogue de Languedoc marble top above a frieze drawer, decorated scrolling foliage and flowers, the corners with female facial masks above corinthian capitals raised on four tapering fluted legs terminating on leaf sabots, stamped twice to underside ‘HENRY DASSON’, dated 1877, marble inscribed No 2 and 14 in chalk .
(h 75.5cm x d 49cm x w 61cm)

Provenance: label to the underside sir H C Bannerman 1904, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1905-1908

N.B. Another examples of this table sold Christie’s London 10 September 2013 lot 135 (£10,000), Sotheby's, New York, 24 October 2012, lot 238 ($16,250). The model can be seen in a photograph circa 1880 of the drawing room at Egerton Winthrop House, 23 East 33rd Street, New York (reproduced in A. Lewis et al. The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age, New York, 1987, p. 71, pl. 53). Egerton Winthrop (d. 1916) spent many years in Paris where he acquired a deep interest in French art and culture. The drawing room of his New York home was in the Louis XVI style with much of the decoration imported from France, including heavily gilded furniture reproduced from period models. The photograph shows further furniture and objects in the Louis XVI style of models known to have been made by Dasson. The Winthrope order would have been an important commission for Dasson and demonstrates the reach and appeal of the premier Parisian ébénistesof the time