A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MAHOGANY PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, by Henri Leonard Wassmus, with a serpentine rectangular ormolu-moulded top inset with a tooled brown leather surface above a conforming ormolu-panelled frieze and fitted with three drawers on cabriole legs with foliate scrolling sabots and headed by applied rams' masks--29 in. high, 45 in. wide, 25 in. deep

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A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MAHOGANY PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, by Henri Leonard Wassmus, with a serpentine rectangular ormolu-moulded top inset with a tooled brown leather surface above a conforming ormolu-panelled frieze and fitted with three drawers on cabriole legs with foliate scrolling sabots and headed by applied rams' masks--29 in. high, 45 in. wide, 25 in. deep

Lot Essay

D. Ledoux- Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX e Siecle, 1984, p. 621

Henri Léonard Wassmus, probably the son of Jean-Henri Chrétien, recorded as working at 146, rue du Faubourg St. Denis after 1853. Wassmus submitted an armoire and a table à écrier at the 1855 Exposition Universelle. A virtually identical bureau plat stamped Wassmus is in D. Ledoux-Lebard, p. 621; another was sold Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1964.

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