A LOUIS XIV BOULLE BRASS-INLAID RED-TORTOISESHELL AND EBONISED TABLE-DE-CHARGEUR inlaid overall en contre-partie with foliate arabesques, the hinged rectangular top enclosing a black leather-lined writing surface above a panelled frieze with double-gateleg with a frieze drawer to each end, upon square tapering legs with moulded capitals and stepped plinths joined by a later C-shaped stretcher on turned tapering feet, restorations and some replacements, one drawer re-lined

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A LOUIS XIV BOULLE BRASS-INLAID RED-TORTOISESHELL AND EBONISED TABLE-DE-CHARGEUR inlaid overall en contre-partie with foliate arabesques, the hinged rectangular top enclosing a black leather-lined writing surface above a panelled frieze with double-gateleg with a frieze drawer to each end, upon square tapering legs with moulded capitals and stepped plinths joined by a later C-shaped stretcher on turned tapering feet, restorations and some replacements, one drawer re-lined
34in. (86cm.) wide; 29¼in. (74.5cm.) high; 13in. (33cm.) deep

Provenance

The Late Mrs. Gladys Green, Sandal House, Wakefield, Sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1981, lot 108

Lot Essay

Two similar table were exhibited in the Louis XIV Exhibition, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 1960, nos. 94 and 95. Another was sold by Sotheby's London, 11 December 1970, lot 58
Related table illustrated in S. de Plas, Les Meubles à Transormations et à Secret, Paris 1975, figs. 20 and 21

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