A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT by Pierre Roussel, the crossbanded rectangular top with green leather-lined writing-surface and stepped edge, the panelled frieze inset with chain-link and with three drawers to the front, with a central rounded kneehole flanked by drawers inlaid with flowerhead-filled trellis parquetry, the angles with elongated triglyph capitals and on panelled square tapering legs mounted with foliate trails and on stepped square feet, stamped P. ROUSSEL JME, the top later, adapted from a cylinder bureau

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A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT by Pierre Roussel, the crossbanded rectangular top with green leather-lined writing-surface and stepped edge, the panelled frieze inset with chain-link and with three drawers to the front, with a central rounded kneehole flanked by drawers inlaid with flowerhead-filled trellis parquetry, the angles with elongated triglyph capitals and on panelled square tapering legs mounted with foliate trails and on stepped square feet, stamped P. ROUSSEL JME, the top later, adapted from a cylinder bureau
57½in. (146cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 30in. (76cm.) deep

Provenance

The Dukes of Leeds, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire
The Duke of Leeds, sold in these Rooms, 10 June 1920, lot 131

Lot Essay

This bureau plat is designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' style and is embellished with an acanthus-enriched ribbon-guilloche and inlaid panels with flowered mosaic fret. The hermed feet are capped by Doric metopes and triglyphs, together with Ionic capitals festooned with laurels. A mount of this pattern features on an inlaid secrétaire stamped by Roussel and bought from his widow in 1789 (see: P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 1741)

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