A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted tulipwood, bois satine and parquetry bureau plat

CIRCA 1860

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A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted tulipwood, bois satine and parquetry bureau plat
Circa 1860
With leather-lined inset top above three frieze drawers to each side, the outer drawers inlaid with Greek key parquetry, within a ribbon-entwined reeded edge, on tapering legs headed by panelled paterae and draped with husk-cast swags, with square caps
29in. (75.5cm.) high; 51in. (129.5cm.) wide; 29in. (74.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This bureau plat derives from a group from the 1770s with similar, bold use of neoclassical inlay by bnistes such as Philippe-Claude Montigny, Jean-Franois Leleu and Ren Dubois. An example with similar Greek key inlay to the frieze by Ren Dubois (matre in 1755) is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier franais du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1989, p. 281.

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