Lot 168
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, BOIS SATINE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL MARQUETRY BUREAU DE PENTE
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, BOIS SATINE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL MARQUETRY BUREAU DE PENTE

BY ANTOINE GOSSELIN, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, BOIS SATINE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL MARQUETRY BUREAU DE PENTE
BY ANTOINE GOSSELIN, MID-18TH CENTURY
Veneered toutes faces with trefoil and cartouche shaped reserves with foliate and floral marquetry embellished with parrots and birds, the fall-front concealing a fitted interior with various drawers conformingly veneered, above two small drawers and a long drawer, on cabriole legs headed by chutes and terminating by sabots, one drawer stamped to the side 'GOSSELIN', remounted, restoration to the veneers
Provenance
Sotheby'’s, Monaco, 21 February 1988, lot 762.
Literature
Pierre Kjelberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIeme siècle, Paris, 1998, page 363.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Antoine Gosselin, maître in 1752.

With its distinctive marquetry of a fan consisting of scrolls to the back, this bureau de pente relates to another bureau stamped by François or Pierre Garnier which was sold Christie’s, Paris, 22 June 2004, lot 310. It was probably formerly the Imperial Russian Collections and subsequently sold, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 4 and 5 June 1929, lot 200. It was exhibited, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Grands Ebénistes et Menuisiers Parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, 1955, no. 112.
A related marquetry pattern also appears on a bureau de pente stamped by Bernard van Risen Burgh which was sold, from The Alexander Collection, Christie’s, New York, 30 April 1999, lot 103.

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