A Transitional style ormolu-mounted tulipwood, mahogany, amboyna and parquetry bureau de dame

BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, CIRCA 1880

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A Transitional style ormolu-mounted tulipwood, mahogany, amboyna and parquetry bureau de dame
By Paul Sormani, Paris, Circa 1880
The 'D'-shaped parquetry-inlaid top with three-quarted balustrade, inscribed to the top right side P. SORMANI. PARIS and mounted with a pair of acanthus-sheathed reeded twin-branch candelabra, the shaped front fitted with a pull-out slide with leather-lined writing surface above a deep recess with quarter-veneered sides, flanked on each side by a curved parquetry panel, with similarly-inlaid back, the open ends each fitted with a single shelf, with rounded angles and tapering legs headed by a floral spray, on scrolled acanthus-cast sabots
Overall: 36¾in. (93.3cm.) high; 28¼in. (71.6cm.) wide; 16¼in. (41.2cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Italian by birth, Paul Sormani established his highly successful business at 10, rue Charlot in 1867. He exhibited at all of the major international exhibitions, with petits meubles de fantaisie, as well as fine quality versions in the Louis XV, XVI and Transitional styles. On Sormani's death, the business was continued by his wife and son, pieces then bearing the signature Vve Sormani & Fils.

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