A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY MEUBLE À HAUTEUR D'APPUI

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY MEUBLE À HAUTEUR D'APPUI
LATE 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO GUILLAUME BENEMAN

With later rectangular bleu turquin marble top above a beaded frieze fitted with Apollo masks above two drawers centered by triangular griffin-cast lockplates and reeded pulls cast with masks above a further pair of cabinet doors inlaid with trellis flanked by Ionic pilasters, on toupie feet with ormolu sabots--40¼in. (102cm.) high, 47¾in. (121cm.) wide, 13¼in. (33.5cm.) deep

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Guillaume Beneman, maître in 1785