**A LOUIS XIV STYLE EBONY, MARQUETRY AND INLAID PEWTER AND GREEN-STAINED IVORY CABINET ON GILTWOOD STAND

Property sold to benefit a New England Foundation

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**A LOUIS XIV STYLE EBONY, MARQUETRY AND INLAID PEWTER AND GREEN-STAINED IVORY CABINET ON GILTWOOD STAND
The rectangular blue baize-lined top above three graduated drawers, inlaid overall with foliate and floral scrolls on foliate scrolled supports carved with berried swags joined by similar x-stretcher, composed of late 17th-century elements
31in. (79cm) high, 22in. (56cm)wide, 33in. (84cm)deep

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Lot Essay

This cabinet is probably adapted from one end of a Louis XIV bureau mazarin . The richly scrolling floral marquetry of the drawer fronts and the flower-filled urns of the sides relates to the work of the marqueteurs of the Gobelins workshop and in particular to Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), ébéniste du roi. A bureau attributed to Boulle with similar floral marquetry is illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ébénistes Français, Paris, 1989, pp.94-5, figs.50-51.