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Lot 18
Sale 5074 - The Joseph Sorger Collection
Oct 5, 2010
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$12,000 -
18,000
Price Realized
$5,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Classical carved and inlaid mahogany pier table attributed to anthony g. quervelle, philadelphia, circa 1825-1830
Rectangular white marble top above turned pilasters flanking mirror plate and scrolled leaf and eagle's head-carved legs on lion claw feet heightened with gilding and supported by turned and carved plinths, enclosing a shaped platform with geometric inlay.
LITERATURE:
This item is illustrated in Boor, John, Philadelphia Empire Furniture, 2006, figure 102, p. 232 and in The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art (1976), Figure 231, p. 278
NOTE:
Retains sections of a Quervelle newsprint advertisement glued to frame.