A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
The eared white-veined grey marble top above a frieze-drawer and a flap with a central floral medallion within scrolled banding hung with laurel swags, enclosing a gilt-tooled red leather-lined writing-surface, four open shaped compartments and four small drawers, the lower doors conformingly inlaid and enclosing an interior fitted with one shelf, a compartmented strong-box and a hinged door concealing further vertical compartments, on bracket feet with rectangular panelled mounts, the interior with label inscribed 'Given to Catherine Mary Nettlefold Martin by her Godmother, Great Aunt Annie Gale. I remember it in 1929, when it arrived in the new drawing-room at Kinchley. Where it was before that I don't know', previously with escutcheons, the upper-most section with drawer with slightly different construction
57 in. (146 cm.) high; 33 in. (84 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Catherine Mary Nettlefold Martin, Kinchley, circa 1929.

Lot Essay

A very similar secrtaire abattant, incorporating a variant of this cube parquetry within an identical Greek key framing and with the fall-front centred by a very closely related cartouche, is signed by Lonard Boudin (matre in 1761) and was anonymously sold, Etude Couturier Nicolay, Paris, 19 June 1992, lot 132; while another nearly identical to the latter is by Franois Bayer (matre in 1764) and illustrated in J. Nicolay, Matres bnistes Franais, Paris, 1956, p. 47, fig. B.

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