Lot Essay
For a note on Millet, please see lot 474.
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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany and parquetry side cabinet
BY MAISON MILLET, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Details
A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany and parquetry side cabinet
By Maison Millet, Paris, Last quarter 19th Century
With central raised brèche violette marble top flanked on either side by lozenge parquetry panels, over three frieze drawers and a central cupboard door below opening to three adjustable shelves, flanked to each side by a bevelled glazed panel door enclosing an olive-green velvet-lined interior and two adjustable glazed shelves, the angles headed by a rosette and an acanthus scroll, the sides with a bevelled glazed panel, on scrolled acanthus feet, inscribed to the right back foot Millet a Paris and stencilled 6617 to the back of the carcass
48 in. (122 cm.) high; 51¾ in. (131.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
By Maison Millet, Paris, Last quarter 19th Century
With central raised brèche violette marble top flanked on either side by lozenge parquetry panels, over three frieze drawers and a central cupboard door below opening to three adjustable shelves, flanked to each side by a bevelled glazed panel door enclosing an olive-green velvet-lined interior and two adjustable glazed shelves, the angles headed by a rosette and an acanthus scroll, the sides with a bevelled glazed panel, on scrolled acanthus feet, inscribed to the right back foot Millet a Paris and stencilled 6617 to the back of the carcass
48 in. (122 cm.) high; 51¾ in. (131.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 29 October 1998, Lot 152 (£23,000).