BY GROHE

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A NAPOLEON III EBONISED AMBOYNA ORMOLU MOUNTED BUREAU PLAT
By Grohe
In the Louis XVI style, the rectangular top inset with a panel of tooled black leather, re-entrant corners and foliate gadrooned edge containing three drawers in the frieze, with laurel and ribbon tied sprays and garlands and dummy drawers to the reverse, on fluted tapered legs with drapery ornament joined by curved X-stretchers below, with foliate ornament on turned feet with brass castors, stamped twice GROHE
63¼in. (160.5cm.) wide, 35½in. (90cm.) deep, 30in. (76cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The firm of Grohe was established in the mid 1820s in Paris by Guillaume and Jean-Michel Grohe. They exhibited at the major exhibitions throughout the 19th century and supplied furniture to the French Royal households, as well as to Queen Victoria. Following Guillaume's retirement in 1861, the younger brother Jean-Michel managed the business until 1884, when it ceased trading.

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