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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS, TORTOISESHELL AND PEWTER- INLAID EBONY BOULLE MARQUETRY MEUBLES À HAUTEUR D'APPUI
CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO ETIENNE LEVASSEUR OR PHILIPPE-CLAUDE MONTIGNY
Each with rectangular grey and red mottled marble top above a break-front frieze centrally mounted with an ormolu panel cast with satyr's masks issuing scrolling foliage above a spring-operated cupboard door fitted with a leaf-tip cast encadrement enclosing a panel inlaid in contre partie with a central rosette surmounted by scrolling foliate arabesques flanked by similarly mounted spring-mounted cupboard doors enclosing allegorical figures emblematic of the Four Seasons, the angles fitted with foliate clasps surmounted by beaded acanthus banding, the sides similarly mounted and inlaid, on shaped rectangular plinth edged in gadrooning and inlaid with husks, on acanthus-cast toupie feet headed by paterae and in ending in ball toes, one with a printed paper label 'Schloss Schillersdorf 1468 XVII,' one marble top with chalk inscription 'no. 1467'-42in. (107cm.) high, 49in. (124cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep (2)
CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO ETIENNE LEVASSEUR OR PHILIPPE-CLAUDE MONTIGNY
Each with rectangular grey and red mottled marble top above a break-front frieze centrally mounted with an ormolu panel cast with satyr's masks issuing scrolling foliage above a spring-operated cupboard door fitted with a leaf-tip cast encadrement enclosing a panel inlaid in contre partie with a central rosette surmounted by scrolling foliate arabesques flanked by similarly mounted spring-mounted cupboard doors enclosing allegorical figures emblematic of the Four Seasons, the angles fitted with foliate clasps surmounted by beaded acanthus banding, the sides similarly mounted and inlaid, on shaped rectangular plinth edged in gadrooning and inlaid with husks, on acanthus-cast toupie feet headed by paterae and in ending in ball toes, one with a printed paper label 'Schloss Schillersdorf 1468 XVII,' one marble top with chalk inscription 'no. 1467'-42in. (107cm.) high, 49in. (124cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep (2)