Lot 86
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND PARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND PARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

BY JEAN-GEORGES SCHLICHTIG, CIRCA 1770

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND PARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
BY JEAN-GEORGES SCHLICHTIG, CIRCA 1770
The rectangular top with a three quarter pierced gallery, above a roll top enclosing a sliding gilt-tooled leather-lined writing surface, four drawers, four simulated drawers and three pigeon holes, above a frieze fitted with three drawers, the sides with conforming parquetry, on square tapered legs, stamped 'J.G. SCHLICHTIG' and 'JME', the gallery later
42 in. (107 cm.) high; 50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 30¼ in. (77 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Jean-Georges Schlichtig, maître in 1765.

The sophisticated trellised parquetry 'de carrés à quatre-feuilles sur fond de cubes', mosaiced in Roman pavement fashion, was favoured by a number of ébénistes in the 1760s. It also appears on commodes bearing the stamps of the fabricant and marchand Léonard Boudin (maître in 1761) and Pierre Denizot maître in 1740) (illustrated in P.Kjellberg, Le Mobilier
Français du XVIIIeme Siècle, Paris, 1998, pp. 92, 254, 255 and 92). In addition it appears on a commode stamped by Daniel Deloose (maître in 1767), sold, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1987, lot 264.

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