MID-18TH CENTURY, PARTIALLY REMOUNTED

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT
MID-18TH CENTURY, PARTIALLY REMOUNTED
The waved rectangular leather-lined top with moulded border and foliate corner clasps, above three drawers and three simulated drawers to the reverse, mounted with dragon handles, the sides with rockwork and foliage, on cabriole legs headed by rockwork and foliage and terminating in pierced foliate sabots, restorations to the veneers, the lock replaced in England in the 19th century, the mounts struck with the C Couronné poinçon
25¾ in. (75 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 30 in. (96.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from D'Ivry, 15 November 1918.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The C Couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper. The same rocaille C-scroll mounts to the bureau plat's ends are characteristic of the oeuvre of Antoine-Robert Gaudreaus. They featured on the commode supplied by Gaudreaus in 1745 for the Dauphin's bedchamber at Fontainebleau. Now at Versailles, the commode is illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 147, pl. 118. These same mounts and angle mounts are shared on the bureau plat sold in the Rossi Collection, Sotheby's London, 10 November 1999, lot 657.

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