BY GROHE, PARIS, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry meuble d'appui
By Grohe, Paris, Second half 19th Century
Of breakfront serpentine outline, with shaped grey-veined white marble top, above three frieze drawers and a cupboard door below, the interior with an adjustable shelf, flanked to each side by canted angles with rams' mask above ribbon-tied foliate festoons and trophies, the inswept sides each with a trellis inlaid panel, on four acanthus-cast claw feet, twice stamped GROHE A PARIS to the top of the carcass
70½in. (179cm.) wide; 42¾in. (108.5cm.) high; 27in. (68.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The firm of Grohé was established in the mid 1820s in Paris by Guillaume and Jean-Michel Grohé. They exhibited at the major exhibitions throughout the 19th century and supplied furniture to the French Royal households, as well as to Queen Victoria. Following Guillaume's retirement in 1861, the younger brother Jean-Michel managed the business until 1884, when it ceased trading.

The design of the central marquerty pastoral vignette derives from a commode supplied for Versailles by Jean-Henri Riesener (maître 1768) and now in the Musée de Condé, Chantilly.

A similar meuble d'appui by Grohé, with trellis marquetry panels is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle, Paris 1984, p. 242.

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