Lot 194
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT, in the Louis XVI style, with a shaped gilt-tooled leather writing surface, with ormolu banded edge and shell-cast corner clasps, above the shaped frieze fitted with a central drawer and a smaller drawer to each side with 'C'-shell lock escutcheons and acanthus-cast frame, the reverse with three apparent drawers, on square shaped legs each headed by a plume-helmeted warrior herm, wearing armour, with acanthus-cast terminal and scroll sabots,stamped twice on the underside of the carcass CAGAUT, PARIS, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT, in the Louis XVI style, with a shaped gilt-tooled leather writing surface, with ormolu banded edge and shell-cast corner clasps, above the shaped frieze fitted with a central drawer and a smaller drawer to each side with 'C'-shell lock escutcheons and acanthus-cast frame, the reverse with three apparent drawers, on square shaped legs each headed by a plume-helmeted warrior herm, wearing armour, with acanthus-cast terminal and scroll sabots,stamped twice on the underside of the carcass CAGAUT, PARIS, late 19th Century

84in. (213.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (180cm.) high; 41in. (104cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This form of elegantly serpentined bureau-plat with herm-headed legs in the Louis XV picturesque style of the 1730s, was largely inspired by the "Charles Cressent" bureau-plat, which was acquired from the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild and is now in the Gulbenkian Musuem, Lisbon.

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