Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste-Gilles Youf, recorded as working in Paris 1799-1837
Details
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY VITRINE-CABINET
CIRCA 1810, STAMPED YOUF
With stepped rectangular pediment above a plain frieze fitted with flower-fitted baskets and scrolling foliage above a later arched glazed cabinet door fitted with trumpeting angles and flanked with disengaged columns above a long drawer and similarly mounted plinth-83 1/2in. (212cm.) high, 44 1/2in. (113cm.) wide, 21 1/2in. (54.5cm.) deep
CIRCA 1810, STAMPED YOUF
With stepped rectangular pediment above a plain frieze fitted with flower-fitted baskets and scrolling foliage above a later arched glazed cabinet door fitted with trumpeting angles and flanked with disengaged columns above a long drawer and similarly mounted plinth-83 1/2in. (212cm.) high, 44 1/2in. (113cm.) wide, 21 1/2in. (54.5cm.) deep
Provenance
William Charles Cole Claiborn, first governor of Louisiana 1775-1817