A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOAGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET, with moulded brocatelle marble top and laurel framed Apollo mask frieze with concealed spring-action drawer, above a panelled frieze with confronted 'arabesque' dolphins flanking Cupid's flower-wreathed quiver, above a slightly bowed panel door inlaid with a neo-classical vase with flowers & fruit, enclosing two adjustable shelves, the concave sides mounted with guilloche panels above a panel inlaid with flower-filled trelliswork, the rounded angles mounted with acanthus scrolls above oak leaves, with waved frieze, on turned toupie feet and acanthus sabots, last quarter 19th century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOAGANY, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY SIDE CABINET, with moulded brocatelle marble top and laurel framed Apollo mask frieze with concealed spring-action drawer, above a panelled frieze with confronted 'arabesque' dolphins flanking Cupid's flower-wreathed quiver, above a slightly bowed panel door inlaid with a neo-classical vase with flowers & fruit, enclosing two adjustable shelves, the concave sides mounted with guilloche panels above a panel inlaid with flower-filled trelliswork, the rounded angles mounted with acanthus scrolls above oak leaves, with waved frieze, on turned toupie feet and acanthus sabots, last quarter 19th century
51in. (130cm.) wide; 69in. (175.5cm.) high; 18in. (46cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The cabinet, incorporating a marquetry panel with a snake-handled flower-vase standing on a fruit-enriched plinth, is inspired by furniture in the 'antique' or 'Grecian' manner by Louis XVI's ebeniste J. H. Riesener (d. 1785).
A related meuble à hauteur d'appui by Guillaume Grohé (1808-1885) of rue de Varenne is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Francais de XIX Siècle, Paris, 1989. p. 242. He supplied furniture to Napoleon III and Queen Victoria and was described in the Figaro, 19 January 1884, as 'maitre de l'ebenisterie artistique', who was a worthy successor to Riesener and the uncontested master of contemporary ebenisterie.

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