A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE

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A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE

Banded overall with amaranth, the three-quarter galleried rectangular top inlaid with a musical trophy and billing doves on a mahogany ground, the frieze with partially-fitted drawer inlaid with trellis and rosette on a green-stained ground and bordered with geometrical purple-heart banding, with conforming sides, above two drawers inlaid with geometric cube-pattern and banding, on turned tapering legs inlaid with flutes and brass caps, restorations
17¼in. (44cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 12½in. (32cm.) deep

来源

The late Countess of Sefton, sold in these Rooms, 3 July 1980, lot 124

拍品专文

The floral-trellis parquetry on a green-stained ground, employed on the sécrétaire-drawer, is shared by a petite table by Godefroy Dester (maître in 1774) illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 261