A LOUIS XV ORMOLU MOUNTED AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU-PLAT

STAMPED I.M. CHEVALIER, CIRCA 1745, REMOUNTED

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU MOUNTED AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU-PLAT
Stamped I.M. CHEVALIER, circa 1745, remounted
The cross-banded rectangular top with a gilt, tooled red leather inset, molded edge and rocaille cartouche corner mounts, above three walnut-lined frieze drawers, the reverse with mathcing faux-drawers and the quarter-veneered sides with Apollo's mask mounts, on cabriole legs with rocaille-cast angles and shoots, the sabot with scrolled toe, restorations
29in. (73.5cm.) high, 55¼in. (140.5cm.) wide, 27½in. (70cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Jean Mathieu Chevallier, maître in 1743, worked for for the duc de Talmont and for Louise-Anne de Bourbon-Condé at the Château de Villgénis.

A bureau-plat of similar form sold Drouot, Paris 6 June 1984 is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Le mobilier francais du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 1780, 180.

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