A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND SATINE BUREAU-PLAT

BY JEAN-MATHIEU CHEVALIER, CIRCA 1745

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND SATINE BUREAU-PLAT
BY JEAN-MATHIEU CHEVALIER, CIRCA 1745
The rectangular top with later tooled leather above three frieze drawers, the reverse with sham drawers, the sides with Apollo's mask mounts, on cabriole legs mounted with chutes and , remounted, stamped I.M CHEVALIER
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high, 55¼ in. (140.5 cm.) wide, 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 March 2000, lot 260.

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Lot Essay

Jean Mathieu Chevallier, maître in 1743, worked for for the duc de Talmont and for Louise-Anne de Bourbon-Condé at the Château de Villgénis.
A bureau-plat of similar form sold Drouot, Paris 6 June 1984 is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Le mobilier francais du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 1780, 180.

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