A Late 19th Century Bronze Mounted Marble Top Table
Item # CC1155
A Late 19th Century Bronze Mounted Marble Top Table
By Henry Dasson, Paris Dated 1887
The oval marble top above a scrolled frieze set to the front with a drawer, on fluted supports each headed by a ram’s mask, joined by a lower shelf with a pierced gallery, on splayed feet with acanthus sabot.
The underside stamped HENRY DASSON 1887, and the molding signed Henry Dasson 1887
Henry Dasson was considered one of the finest makers of gilt bronze mounted furniture in the nineteenth Century. He established a workshop at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, and specialised in the production of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture using the very finest ormolu mounts with the highest quality mercury gilding. In 1871, Dasson purchase Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen business and remaining stock.
Dasson exhibited at the 1878 and 1889 Paris Exhibition. He displayed Louis XV and XVI styles as well as pieces of his own modified eighteenth century design. The exhibits in 1878 included a table entirely in gilt bronze, purchased by Lord Dudley.
Details:
Height – 32 inches / 81cm
Width – 31.5 inches / 80cm
Depth – 26 inches / 66cm
Maker – Henry Dasson
