FOUR GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLES IN LOUIS XV STYLE LATE 19TH CENTURY comprising: two pairs of tables

FOUR GILTWOOD CENTRE TABLES IN LOUIS XV STYLE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

comprising: two pairs of tables, each with a later inset opaque glass panel and with engraved scrolling leaf and husk decoration above a leaf and flower carved pierced frieze, on pierced scroll cabriole legs (4)

67.5cm high, 57 and 52cm wide, 36 and 34.5cm deep

PROVENANCE

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918)

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

CATALOGUE NOTE

This set of four giltwood tables were originally set with a remarkable group of Sevres porcelain plaques with scenes from Tasso's 'Jerusalem Liberata'. They originally framed a large coloured porcelain plaque showing 'Rinaldo and Armida' after Boucher and formed the top of a table made in 1787 for the Duke of Saxe-Teschen, the brother-in-law of Marie-Antoinette. The table, the largest and most famous of its kind, was made by Daguerre for Louis XVI who paid 30,000 livres. Alfred de Rothschild bought the table at the end of the 19th century and removed the plaques. They now reside in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.