A MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BUREAU-PLAT

OF LOUIS XV STYLE

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A MID-VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BUREAU-PLAT
Of Louis XV style
The serpentine rectangular top diagonally and crossbanded and with a green leather-lined writing-surface, above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers, with conforming simulated drawers to the reverse, the frieze with lozenge parquetry in shaped lappeted borders, the ends with a shaped apron and acanthus and foliate mounts, on tapering cabriole legs headed by goat-mask and foliage mounts to scrolled foliage sabots, one drawer inscribed in pencil 'Mr Anoot 16 Old Bond St N Porter', one drawer inscribed in pencil 'Mr Annoot 16 Old Bond St N Porter', the last drawer inscribed 'N Porter', the central drawer-well inscribed 'N. Porter May 1863',
29 in. (75.5 cm.) high; 47 in. (119.5 cm.) wide; 25 in. (65 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This elegantly serpentined desk (or bureau plat), is embellished with 'dice' parquetried tablets and bacchic ram-headed mounts in the antique fashion introduced around 1760 by bnistes such as Jean-Franois Oeben (d. 1763). It bears the inscription of the furniture dealer and manufacturer Charles Annoot, who had traded as Annoot and Gale, from 1854 to 1862 at 16 Old Bond Street, and was an exhibitor at the 1862 Exhibition held in the South Kensington Museum. A table of this pattern, but with veneered top, has been recorded with the stamp of the French-run London firm of Mellier and Co. of 60 Margaret Street, who in 1868 took over the firm established by Monbro in 1863 (see C. Paine, 18th Century European Furntiure, London, 1985, p. 310, fig. 954).

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