A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE DE NUIT

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE DE NUIT
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY GERVAIS DURAND

With rectangular galleried top applied with vitruvian scrolls above a frieze drawer, on square tapering legs with cap feet and conforming ormolu-molded undertier--27in. (68.5cm.) high, 19¾in. (48.2cm.) wide, 15in. (38.1cm.) deep

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Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand is recorded as having worked at 62 rue Saint-Antoine. He participated in the Exposition universelle of 1889 where he was awarded a silver medal. Cf. D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes du XIXe Siècle, 1984, p. 181.