THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, BY LOUIS-AUGUSTE-ALFRED BEURDELEY

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MONTED TULIPWOOD MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, BY LOUIS-AUGUSTE-ALFRED BEURDELEY
The rectangular ormolu-moulded top inset with brown leather over two frieze drawers within ribbon-wrapped reeded encadrements centered by laurel wreath drawer-pulls, flanked by draped angles chutes, the sides similarly fitted and with writing slides, the reverse with similar sham drawers, inlaid throughout with trellis centering flower-heads, on square-tapering legs headed by cast guttae mounts inlaid with trailing husks, with square incurving sabots, with a railed placque made in France and stencilled numbers 190, branded 'A. BEURDELEY PARIS'

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Louis-Auguste-Alfred Beurdeley specialized in interpreting 18th century furniture, notably Louis XVI, and became the most celebrated ébéniste during the Second Empire (1852-1870), supplying furniture to the Garde Meuble Impérial, whose growth Napoleon III supported. Napoleon III encouraged the manufacture of luxury goods which had been promoted under Louis XIV but was permitted to lapse with the fall of the Bourbons in 1830 (See. D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes du XIXe Siècle, 1985, pp.80-82).