A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE
DESSERTE
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, BY SCHMIT

With an eared D-shaped violet and white marble top above a conforming frieze applied with vitruvian scrolls and fitted with three drawers over a central door applied with an armorial trophy surmounted by doves in a laurel wreath and flanked by open shelves on toupie feet, labelled 'SCHMIT Ebeniste D'art, 22, Rue du Chaponne, Paris'--44in. (111.7cm.) high, 78½in. (199.3cm.) wide, 24in. (60.9cm.) deep

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Frederic Schmit, maître in 1856 at 9 Rue de Charonne and recorded as working in Paris at 9 Rue de Charonne. In 1876 he opened an atelier at 22 Rue de Charonne. Schmit exhibited both in the 1879 and 1889 Exposition Universelles and was awarded gold medals in each (see Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébéniste du XIX Siècle, 1984, pp.

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