IN THE LOUIS XV STYLE
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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID WALNUT AND MARQUETRY BUREAUX PLATS
In the Louis XV style
Each with a green leather-lined serpentine rectangular top with boxwood and ebony lines and a foliate-inlaid border interspersed with four butterflies, above a pair of frieze drawers inlaid with foliage scrolls flanking a central tablet with a C-scroll shell and foliage motif, with conforming inlaid sides and reverse, on tapering cabriole legs headed by pierced C-scroll rockwork and foliage mounts, with conforming sabots
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; one: 48½ in. (123.5 cm.) wide, the other 49 in. (124.5 cm.) wide; one: 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep, the other: 28 in.(71 cm.) (2)
In the Louis XV style
Each with a green leather-lined serpentine rectangular top with boxwood and ebony lines and a foliate-inlaid border interspersed with four butterflies, above a pair of frieze drawers inlaid with foliage scrolls flanking a central tablet with a C-scroll shell and foliage motif, with conforming inlaid sides and reverse, on tapering cabriole legs headed by pierced C-scroll rockwork and foliage mounts, with conforming sabots
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; one: 48½ in. (123.5 cm.) wide, the other 49 in. (124.5 cm.) wide; one: 27½ in. (70 cm.) deep, the other: 28 in.(71 cm.) (2)
Provenance
William, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1902) and by descent.