A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU PLAT

STAMPED B.MOLITOR JME, CIRCA 1788

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU PLAT
Stamped B.MOLITOR JME, Circa 1788
The gilt-tooled brown leather-inset rectangular top with rounded corners, above three panelled frieze drawers with scrolled cartouche lock-plates and faux drawers to the reverse, all flanked by berried laurel-draped corners, each panelled side set with a gilt-tooled brown leather-inset writing slide, on tapering fluted legs with beaded collars and cap feet, the laurel swag mounts possibly replaced
29¼in. (74cm.) high, 63in. (160cm.) wide, 29¾in. (75.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Bernard Molitor, maître in 1787.

Only very few bureaux plats stamped by Molitor are known. U. Leben, Molitor, London, 1992, pp. 191-192, lists two of very similar dimensions with similarly fluted tapering legs.

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