Lot Essay
Godefroy Dester, maître in 1774
Details
A TRANSITIONAL TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE by Godefroy Dester
With three-quarter galleried leather-lined top fitted with a leather-lined slide and a drawer on the right, on slender cabriole legs headed by scrolled ormolu angles and joined by a kidney-shaped shelf, on later sabots, the drawer re-lined, the sabots not matching, stamped godefroy dester jme, the parquetry possibly later 22¼in. (56.5cm.) wide; 30¼in. (77cm.) high; 14in. (35.5cm.) deep
With three-quarter galleried leather-lined top fitted with a leather-lined slide and a drawer on the right, on slender cabriole legs headed by scrolled ormolu angles and joined by a kidney-shaped shelf, on later sabots, the drawer re-lined, the sabots not matching, stamped godefroy dester jme, the parquetry possibly later 22¼in. (56.5cm.) wide; 30¼in. (77cm.) high; 14in. (35.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 4 December 1980, lot 71