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Pair of kingwood card tables by G. Durand

Creator: Gervais Durand
Offered by: Wick Antiques LTD

Description
A pair of kingwood card tables by G. Durand, each with a shaped folding top above a serpentine frieze and elegant cabriole legs with gilt bronze foliate mounts, edges and sabots, decorated overall with superb marquetry panels of cross-grained foliate scrolls against a counter-cube trellis ground. Stamped ‘G. DURAND’ and bearing the paper label ‘E. MOUGIN, 6 Rue Castex, Doreur sur Cuir – Gainier – Garnisseur pour l’Ameublement, Paris’ who would have supplied the ormolu mounts. Circa 1890.

Footnote: A similar side cabinet by G. Durand appears in Denise Ledoux-Lebard’s ‘Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle.’ In rosewood and purple-heart, it displays the same distinctive use of dark wood to create a silhouette effect in the floral sprays and the same cube-trellis in which the play of light is accentuated by the juxtaposition of cross-grained and counter-inlaid woods.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Notes:	Original labels; documented in literature.
Origin:	France
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	Kingwood, gilded bronze
Condition:	Excellent.
Creation Date:	c. 1890
Number of Pieces:	2-3
Styles / Movements:	Belle Epoque, Traditional
Incollect Reference #:	266251

Dimensions

W.	32.5 in;	H.	29.5 in;	D.	16 in;
W.	82.55 cm;	H.	74.93 cm;	D.	40.64 cm;

Message from Seller:

Wick Antiques was established by Charles Wallrock in the early 1980s. Having grown up in the Antiques world Charles developed an extensive wealth of knowledge. Starting out as a ‘man with a van’ he quickly gained a good reputation and embarked on a longstanding relationship with Harrods. He was later joined by his wife, Caroline Wallrock. Caroline having completed a Persian degree, went on to study at Christie’s fine art and then joined Sotheby’s specializing in Islamic and Japanese works of art