Object Description
A French Ormolu & Porcelain Table de Dame
The top set with a rare yellow-ground porcelain hand-decorated panel with floral scenes and birds within parcel gilt frames and a mahogany reserve around the galleried edge, with conforming porcelain set within the sides and drawer-front, the rectangular table supported on tapering legs joined by a curved stretcher surmounted by a finial, the corners held with putti caryatids with flowering baskets on their heads and Ionic capitals. Some of the porcelain signed ‘JG.’
French, circa 1885
The pattern repeated on the porcelain is the so-called ‘œuil de perdrix,’ meaning ‘partridge eye’ first popularized by Sèvres in the late 18th century. Some of the best Sèvres porcelain featured this background pattern, in combination with panels depicting birds, such as the part service sold at Christie’s in 2019 for $399,000 USD.