LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY PAUL SORMANI, THE LOCKPLATE SIGNED P. SORMANI PARIS/10 RUE CHARLOT

Paul Sormani is recorded as having worked in Paris at 10 Rue Charlot after 1867. He is known to have produced fine reproductions in the Louis XV and Louis XVI manner as well as his own interpretations (see D. Ledoux-Lebards, Le Mobilier Franais du XIXe Sicle, 1984, pp. 583-588)

This bureau plat is based on an example supplied by Bernard II Van Risen Burgh, matre in 1735, to the Bibliothque du Dauphin at Versailles. Other closely related bureau plats by B.V.R.B are in the Lesley Emma Sheafer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and sold Christie's London, 7 December 1995, lot 108.