A Fine Sèvres-Style Porcelain and Gilt-Bronze Mounted Ebonised Centre Table.
The top inset with a cobalt-blue ground central plaque with portrait of Louis XVI, signed ‘Hété’, the foliate-chased border with eighteen further small oval plaques depicting court beauties and the Bourbon coat-of-arms, the ebonised baluster support flanked by acanthus-cast scrolled volutes joined by foliate swags, on a triform base.
France, Circa 1900.
The central medallion depicts Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France, in his Coronation Robes after the portrait by Antoine Francois Callet (1741-1823), France 1778 – 1779 and now in the Mueo Del Prado Spain. Given by Louis XVI to the Count of Aranda, 1783 and acquired by Queen Isabel II from collection of the Duke of Híjar; it entered the Prado Museum in 1864. The portrait closely follows and follows Rigaud’s paintings of Louis XIV, with the king represented with symbols of the French monarchy.
By appointment only.
