Details
A Louis XV purplewood, tulipwood and marquetry bureau de dame
With cartouche panels decorated with meandering floral and foliate stems, the hinged sloping fall with a ribbon-tied floral spray and enclosing a leather-lined interior with an open compartment and drawers and two sliding panels concealing a well, the rear similarly veneered, on angled cabriole legs terminating in later gilt-metal sabots, old restorations, stamped Delorme twice and indistinctly J. M. E.
28½in. (72.5cm.) wide, 30½in. (77.5cm.) high, 16in. (41cm.) deep
With cartouche panels decorated with meandering floral and foliate stems, the hinged sloping fall with a ribbon-tied floral spray and enclosing a leather-lined interior with an open compartment and drawers and two sliding panels concealing a well, the rear similarly veneered, on angled cabriole legs terminating in later gilt-metal sabots, old restorations, stamped Delorme twice and indistinctly J. M. E.
28½in. (72.5cm.) wide, 30½in. (77.5cm.) high, 16in. (41cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous Sale, Christie's New York, 30 April 1986, lot 126