AN EARLY LOUIS XV WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD BUREAU-CABINET

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD BUREAU-CABINET
MID-18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BORDEAUX

With moulded cornice above a pair of arched panel doors carved with guilloche and blossoming foliage, the bombé lower section with hinged slant front enclosing interior fitted with faux book spine drawers above three frieze drawers above three drawers to either side of an arched kneehole on plinth base-116in. (295cm.) high, 68in. (173cm.) wide, 31in. (79cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Bureau cabinets of similarly imposing proportions were designed by the Bordelais architect Louis Combes for the consul of Hamburg in Bordeaux, and a secrétaire of similar proportions is illustrated, J. Du Pasquier, Les Arts Décoratifs Bordelais, 1991, pp. 137