Lot Essay
Jean-Henri Riesener, maître in 1768 and ébéniste ordinaire du mobilier de la Couronne in 1774
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRÉTAIRE À ABATTANT
CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-HENRI RIESENER
With canted white marble rectangular top above a frieze drawer mounted with a relief-cast plaque of putti frolicking amidst clouds, the fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with fire open compartments and four drawers above a breakfront drawer with canted base with fluted turned tapering legs joined by an incurved rectangular undertier ending in toupie feet--49½in. (126cm.) high, 25¾in. (66cm.) wide, 15½in. (39cm.) deep
CIRCA 1780, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-HENRI RIESENER
With canted white marble rectangular top above a frieze drawer mounted with a relief-cast plaque of putti frolicking amidst clouds, the fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with fire open compartments and four drawers above a breakfront drawer with canted base with fluted turned tapering legs joined by an incurved rectangular undertier ending in toupie feet--49½in. (126cm.) high, 25¾in. (66cm.) wide, 15½in. (39cm.) deep