Lot Essay
Etienne Levasseur, maître in 1767
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK LACQUER BUREAU PLAT
LATE 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED E. LEVASSEUR JME
With rectangular inset gilt-tooled leather writing panel above a frieze fitted with three drawers decorated with watery Chinoiserie scapes within foliate-cast encadrements, the sides centrally fitted with a patera flanked by similarly lacquered panels and with a slide, the back fitted with three similarly panelled sham drawers, on square tapering brass-inlaid legs ending in toupie sabots-29in. (74cm.) high, 51in. (130cm.) wide, 25¾in. (66cm.) deep
LATE 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED E. LEVASSEUR JME
With rectangular inset gilt-tooled leather writing panel above a frieze fitted with three drawers decorated with watery Chinoiserie scapes within foliate-cast encadrements, the sides centrally fitted with a patera flanked by similarly lacquered panels and with a slide, the back fitted with three similarly panelled sham drawers, on square tapering brass-inlaid legs ending in toupie sabots-29in. (74cm.) high, 51in. (130cm.) wide, 25¾in. (66cm.) deep