Fine Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted Lamp Table by Paul Sormani

by Paul Sormani.

Single frieze door with Greek key design, Bre`che d’Alep marble top within a bronze gallery.

Lock impressed Sormani Paris/134 BoulD Haussman.

Paul Sormani (1817-1877), was born in Venice in 1817, and was a maker of fine ‘meubles de luxe’. His work was described in the catalogue of the 1867 Exposition Universelle as: ‘toute sa production re´ve`le une qualite´ d’exe´cution de tout premier ordre’.

Sormani exhibited in Paris in 1849, 1855, 1862, 1867, 1878 and 1900, and in London in 1862, winning numerous medals. Amongst the items Sormani exhibited at the 1900 Exposition Universelle were a Louis XV style bureau and a Louis XVI style commode both based on originals held in the Jones Collection at the South Kensington Museum.