IN THE LOUIS XV STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted kingwood and crossbanded bureau plat
In the Louis XV style, Late 19th Century
The serpentine-shaped top crossbanded with mahogany and outlined with boxwood and ebony lines and inset with a tooled leather writing surface, above three frieze drawers, the sides each with a female mask within a foliate-cast escutcheon and ormolu border, the reverse with three apparent drawers, on square-shaped legs headed by centurion terminal busts with scroll and acanthus decoration, on claw sabots
75½in (191.7cm.) wide; 30¼in. (76.8cm.) high; 42in. (106.7cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A Louis XV bureau plat, such as that embellished with busts of Mars and Minerva and formerly in the collection of Alphonse de Rothschild, provided the protype for this table (see A. Pradere, 'Charles Cressent', French Furniture Makers, London, 1989, p.131). A version of the desk by Henry Dasson et Cie and bearing the date 1888 was sold Sotheby & Co, London, 8 March 1984, lot 471. Another bearing the brand of P. Sormani, whose Parisian manufactory flourished 1847-1934, was sold Sotheby & Co, London, 7 November 1994, lot 162.

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