Lot Essay
Charles Joseph Du Four, maître in 1759
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BY CHARLES JOSEPH DUFOUR
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD BUREAU
by Charles Joseph Dufour
Crossbanded and inlaid overall with quarter-veneered panels, the waved rectangular top above a hinged shaped slope framed with C-scrolls and rockwork bands, with a gilt-tooled green leather writing-surface to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with four shaped drawers and four open compartments above a well, above a shaped frieze with two drawers, on cabriole legs headed by foliate rockwork clasps and on foliate sabots, stamped JME and CI DUFOUR twice, remounted
40 in. (101.5 cm) high; 44 in. (111.5 cm) wide; 21 in. (45.5 cm.) deep
by Charles Joseph Dufour
Crossbanded and inlaid overall with quarter-veneered panels, the waved rectangular top above a hinged shaped slope framed with C-scrolls and rockwork bands, with a gilt-tooled green leather writing-surface to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with four shaped drawers and four open compartments above a well, above a shaped frieze with two drawers, on cabriole legs headed by foliate rockwork clasps and on foliate sabots, stamped JME and CI DUFOUR twice, remounted
40 in. (101.5 cm) high; 44 in. (111.5 cm) wide; 21 in. (45.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
René Fribourg Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 17-18 October 1963, lot 799.
Special notice
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