Live Auction 7639Christie's Interiors
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES
Lot 1412

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES

OF LOUIS XV STYLE, BY MELLIER & CO, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed11 December 2012

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES
OF LOUIS XV STYLE, BY MELLIER & CO, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with a grey and pink breccia marble top, the door enclosing a shelf, one stamped below the marble C. MELLIER & CO. MARGARET ST
33¾ in. (86 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep (2)

Specialist note

Based at 60 Margaret Street and Cavendish Square, London, the Anglo-French firm of Mellier & Co. were among the best late 19th-century makers working in French 18th-century styles. They exhibited at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair.