Lot Essay
Louis-Noel Malle, maître in 1760
Details
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE by Louis-Noel Malle
With chamfered serpentine top fitted with a central leather-lined writing surface flanked by panels inlaid with flower-sprays on green-stained grounds and in line borders, the frieze with velvet-lined slide in a green-stained border and with two side drawers each inlaid with flower-sprays and one partially-fitted with a silvered-metal pounce-pot, on slender cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate angles centred by cabochons and ending in foliate sabots, stamped twice in the frieze drawer l n malle, once indistinctly, and once jme, restorations, remounted
28¾in. (73cm.) wide; 28in. (71cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep
With chamfered serpentine top fitted with a central leather-lined writing surface flanked by panels inlaid with flower-sprays on green-stained grounds and in line borders, the frieze with velvet-lined slide in a green-stained border and with two side drawers each inlaid with flower-sprays and one partially-fitted with a silvered-metal pounce-pot, on slender cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate angles centred by cabochons and ending in foliate sabots, stamped twice in the frieze drawer l n malle, once indistinctly, and once jme, restorations, remounted
28¾in. (73cm.) wide; 28in. (71cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep
Provenance
H.J. Joel, Esq., 15 Grosvenor Square, London, W.1., sold in these Rooms, 17 April 1980, lot 114