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Lot Essay
Jean Franois Leleu, matre in 1764.
A coiffeuse of similar shape but with a further central drawer and veneered in tulipwood by the same bniste was sold in the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, in 1949 and was subsequently sold at Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 February 1978, lot 56. That coiffeuse is illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manire des Matres Ebnistes Franais, Paris, 1956, p. 298, fig. P.
A coiffeuse of similar shape but with a further central drawer and veneered in tulipwood by the same bniste was sold in the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, in 1949 and was subsequently sold at Sotheby's, Monaco, 5 February 1978, lot 56. That coiffeuse is illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manire des Matres Ebnistes Franais, Paris, 1956, p. 298, fig. P.