A Very Fine Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Sycamore Center Table
Item # CC1193
A Very Fine Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Sycamore Center Table
By Paul Sormani
A marble top above conforming frieze mounts with allegorical trophies, on alternating male and female figures supported by a pierced loop stretcher with spiral fluted feet.
Stamped P.S. on the back of numerous bronzes.
This guéridon, designed in the manner of Weisweiler, epitomizes the supreme quality of Sormani’s oeuvre. The model was also produced by Sormani’s contemporary, Henry Dasson, an example of which is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 148.
Paul Sormani (1817-1877), was born in Venice in 1817, and was a maker of fine ‘meubles de luxe’. His work was described in the catalogue of the 1867 Exposition Universelle as: ‘toute sa production révèle une qualité d’exécution de tout premier ordre’.
Sormani exhibited in Paris in 1849, 1855, 1862, 1867, 1878 and 1900, and in London in 1862, winning numerous medals. Amongst the items Sormani exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle were a Louis XV style bureau and a Louis XVI style commode both based on originals held in the Jones Collection at the South Kensington Museum.
Details:
Height – 31 inches / 79cm
Diameter – 32 inches / 81cm
Maker – Paul Sormani
