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A RÉGENCE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND EBONY-INLAID TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With rounded rectangular crossbanded top edged with ormolu banding fitted with a burgundy gilt-tooled leather writing panel above a central frieze drawer flanked by two further shaped drawers, the sides mounted with plumed female masks, the back with sham drawers, on cabriole legs headed by female terms ending in scrolling foliate sabots, inlaid throughout in première partie with bérainesque scrolling arabesques--32½in (82.5cm.) high, 71in. (180.5cm.) wide, 36½in. (93cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Richard G. Roberts, Los Angeles
LITERATURE
A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Handbook, 1986, p.12, no.27
The desk is a copy of a bureau plat now in the Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs, Paris, as well as one in the Wallace Collection (F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogues, 1956, f.59). These form part of a group of pieces made by the ébéniste who executed the bureau of the Elector Maximilien II Emmanuel (see J.-N. Ronfort and J.-D. Augarde, "Le Maître du Bureau de l'Èlècteur", L'Estampille L'Object d'Art, January 1991, pp.42-74).
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With rounded rectangular crossbanded top edged with ormolu banding fitted with a burgundy gilt-tooled leather writing panel above a central frieze drawer flanked by two further shaped drawers, the sides mounted with plumed female masks, the back with sham drawers, on cabriole legs headed by female terms ending in scrolling foliate sabots, inlaid throughout in première partie with bérainesque scrolling arabesques--32½in (82.5cm.) high, 71in. (180.5cm.) wide, 36½in. (93cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Richard G. Roberts, Los Angeles
LITERATURE
A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Handbook, 1986, p.12, no.27
The desk is a copy of a bureau plat now in the Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs, Paris, as well as one in the Wallace Collection (F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogues, 1956, f.59). These form part of a group of pieces made by the ébéniste who executed the bureau of the Elector Maximilien II Emmanuel (see J.-N. Ronfort and J.-D. Augarde, "Le Maître du Bureau de l'Èlècteur", L'Estampille L'Object d'Art, January 1991, pp.42-74).