LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted rosewood and marquetry secretaire a abattant
Last quarter 19th Century
Of serpentine bombe shape with a cipollino mandolato verde marble top, above a drawer, with a fall below and three further drawers, inlaid sans traverse with a cartouche and a landscape with a waterfall to the left side and a church to the right, the sides each inlaid with a marquetry of a flower-filled cornucopiae, on foliate sabots
29½ in. (75 cm.) wide; 56¼ in. (143 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The serpentined secretaire, designed in the Louis XV manner and framed by ribbon-tied palms, is inlaid with foliated cartouches and picturesque landscapes in the eighteeth century fashion associated with the Spindler brothers at Potsdam and recalling the Morceaux de Caprice a divers usage, 1745 issued by François Cuvillies (d. 1768).

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