A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BOULLE BRASS-INLAID BROWN TORTOISESHELL AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT

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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BOULLE BRASS-INLAID BROWN TORTOISESHELL AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT
Inlaid overall en contre partie with foliate arabesques, the embossed green leather-lined rectangular top with a pounced border and gadrooned guilloche outer rim, the waved inverted breakfront frieze with three walnut-lined drawers to one side and three simulated drawers to the reverse, mounted with an espagnolette mask foliate cartouche and with a flowered-guilloche border, the kneehole with upspringing acanthus mounts, the ends with a dished, shaped apron, the cabriole legs headed by triton-mask angle-mounts with entwined scaled fish-tail beards, on pearled downswept legs with upspringing scrolled acanthus and husk-trailed sabots, restorations, particularly to the underframe and partially remounted, possibly indistinctly stamped '...ARN...', one mount stamped with the C Couronné poincon
57½ in. (146 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The C Couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.

The distinctive tendril marquetry design of the drawer-fronts and ends is clearly inspired by the same template employed on the bureau plat attributed to André-Charles Boulle in the Wallace Collection, London, which has been tentatively identified with that sold from the collection of the Duke of York in these Rooms, 5 April 1827, lot 118 (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, F427, no.158, pp.741-60).

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