Details
A pair of Napoleon III gilt-metal-mounted and ebonised dwarf side cabinets
each with slate top above foliate-mounted friezes and a pair of doors inlaid with brass and tortoiseshell scrolling foliage, one premier partie and the other contra partie, flanked by similar uprights with bold mounts of cherubs each holding aloft a shell, on projecting plinth, with central Bacchanalean masks, the sides with similar bearded masks, one stamped Pretot 1, the other with additional polychrome floral highlights to the door panels and stamped Pretot three times, 2 BB six times and 267, each -- 45in. (115cm.) wide
See Front Cover Illustration
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each with slate top above foliate-mounted friezes and a pair of doors inlaid with brass and tortoiseshell scrolling foliage, one premier partie and the other contra partie, flanked by similar uprights with bold mounts of cherubs each holding aloft a shell, on projecting plinth, with central Bacchanalean masks, the sides with similar bearded masks, one stamped Pretot 1, the other with additional polychrome floral highlights to the door panels and stamped Pretot three times, 2 BB six times and 267, each -- 45in. (115cm.) wide
See Front Cover Illustration
(2)
Further details
Hippolyte-Edme Pretot 1812-55.
A cabinet with very similar decoration is illustrated, Ledoux-Lebard Le Mobilier Francais du XIX Siecle, page 531
A cabinet with very similar decoration is illustrated, Ledoux-Lebard Le Mobilier Francais du XIX Siecle, page 531