A NEAR PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID EBONY AND EBONISED 'BOULLE' BUREAUX PLATS
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A NEAR PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID EBONY AND EBONISED 'BOULLE' BUREAUX PLATS

CIRCA 1860-80

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A NEAR PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID EBONY AND EBONISED 'BOULLE' BUREAUX PLATS
CIRCA 1860-80
Inlaid throughout in contre partie, each with a replaced red tooled-leather panel to the shaped top above two frieze drawers on slender cabriole legs, one with fragmentary and the other with two complete retail labels 'FROM/ A. JOSEPH/ IMPORTER OF/ WORKS OF ART, 27 NEW BOND ST.', various labels and indistinct pencil inscriptions, losses and repairs to veneers
30.1/2 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep and similar
Provenance
Proabaly Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of
Londonderry (1852-1915) or Theresa Susey Helen, Marchioness of
Londonderry (1856-1919) and by descent.
Literature
Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. ii, p. 198, the library, ‘5ft. ebony & buhl Louis XVI th writing table…top lined Morocco and massive ormolu enrichments’ and ‘the companion table’.
Photographed in situ in the library at Wynyard Park, County Durham, circa 1890.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1949, p. 45, Large Dining Room, ‘A pair of Louis XIV style buhl writing tables mounted with ormolu’.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1956, p. 6, dining room, and p. 8, ante room.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1965, vol. i, p. 16, dining room, and p. 73, old dining room.
Special notice
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

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