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Of Louis XVI style with two-tone gilding, with rotating rest carved with guilloche and rosette borders surrounding trophies of love and music and with cresting of musical instruments and laurels, on a guilloche-carved stem with medial shelf, the tripartite base with scrolled acanthus legs and hung with floral garlands
57 in. (144.8 cm.) high, 1712 in. (44.4 cm.) diameter, the base
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Lot Essay

The design for this music stand is likely inspired by one executed in 1779 for Princess Kinsky's music salon in Paris by joiner Pierre Gontier, sculptor Gilles-Paul Cauvet, and gilder F. Mathon, and now in the Château de Versailles, illustrated in P. Arrizoli-Clémentel, Versailles, Furniture of the Royal Palace, Dijon, 2002, vol. II, p.237, cat. 83.

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