A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED PEDESTALS CIRCA 1785-90, ALMOST CERTAINLY COMMISSIONED BY THE MARCHAND-MERCIER DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE Each with bow-fronted white marble top above an egg-and-dart edge and a palmette and foliate frieze, the spirally-fluted body centred by a Medusa mask and flanked by panelled Egyptian monopodia, above a stepped foliate plinth with circular labels inscribed ' Galerie à decor' and '11320/2', both pedestals inscribed '189', the original 18th century paint surviving beneath decoration 40 in. (104 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 15 ½ in. (39 cm.) deep (2)
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI PARCEL-GILT AND GREY-PAINTED PEDESTALS CIRCA 1785-90, ALMOST CERTAINLY COMMISSIONED BY THE MARCHAND-MERCIER DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE Each with bow-fronted white marble top above an egg-and-dart edge and a palmette and foliate frieze, the spirally-fluted body centred by a Medusa mask and flanked by panelled Egyptian monopodia, above a stepped foliate plinth with circular labels inscribed ' Galerie à decor' and '11320/2', both pedestals inscribed '189', the original 18th century paint surviving beneath decoration 40 in. (104 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 15 ½ in. (39 cm.) deep (2)
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