Carved wood decoration, revealed original white paint, gilded details in polished and matt gold, the apron surmounted by egg-and-dart decoration, panels with acroterion ornaments, lower section with a cymatium frieze, legs with square upper blocks, surmounted by egg-and-dart decoration, panels with pastillage fleurons, beaded moulding, tapering fluted legs, beaded moulding, rounded feet ending in balls. Carrara marble top with a moulded edge. Height 84, length 95.5, width 51 cm

Literature

Håkan Groth: Nyklassicismen i Sverige, Stockholm 1991, p. 87, compare the door overmantel designed by Louis Masreliez in the Blue Salon at Gustav III’s Pavilion

Ingrid Sjöström, ed.: Haga – Ett kungligt kulturarv, Karlstad 2009, p. 158f, compare Louis Masreliez’s drawing of the Blue Salon concerning the decoration of the door overmantel; p. 183, compare the palmette decoration on a console table executed by Pehr Ljung for the Laocoön Group in the Divan Antechamber at Gustav III’s Pavilion

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