A LOUIS PHILIPPE FRENCH ROSEWOOD, BIRD'S EYE MAPLE AND MARQUETRY ETAGERE

BY ALPHONSE-GUSTAVE GIROUX

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A LOUIS PHILIPPE FRENCH ROSEWOOD, BIRD'S EYE MAPLE AND MARQUETRY ETAGERE
By Alphonse-Gustave Giroux
Inlaid overall with boxwood lines, the square top centred by a roundel decorated with foliate scrolls around a flowerhead, on ring-turned supports joined by a middle tier with a crenellated border and a lower box-stretcher, on Turkish slipper feet, the middle tier possibly previously with further mounts
13½ in. (59 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34 cm.) wide; 13½ in. (34 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This elegant etagere was executed by A. Giroux & Cie., the celebrated atelier in the Rue du Coq-Saint-Honoré, which specialised in 'Articles de fantaisie, Tabletterie fines, Necessaires, Bronzes, Ebenisterie....'. The firm was set up by François-Simon-Alphonse Giroux around 1799, initially only as a boutique, but later also in a manufacturing capacity. Under the leadership of his son, Alphonse-Gustave, it continued until the final years of the Second Empire. A virtually identical etagere, with a cushion-shaped basket top, bears A. Giroux's trade label and is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe. Siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 227. An identical etagere was sold by Delorme-Fraysse at Drouot, 22 February 2000 (FF 200000)

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