Lot 258
258
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED TORTOISESHELL, BRASS, PEWTER AND BOULLE DISPLAY CABINET, the foliate crest cartouche centred by a flower-festooned mask of Flora above the moulded pediment, enclosing a pair of glazed panel doors, flanked by a concave glazed panel to each side, the lower section of breakfront outline, fitted with a secretaire drawer and fitted interior, above a pair of panelled doors, each outlined by an acanthus border and centred by a female mask, the side panels similar, on an undulating bracket base, third quarter 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED TORTOISESHELL, BRASS, PEWTER AND BOULLE DISPLAY CABINET, the foliate crest cartouche centred by a flower-festooned mask of Flora above the moulded pediment, enclosing a pair of glazed panel doors, flanked by a concave glazed panel to each side, the lower section of breakfront outline, fitted with a secretaire drawer and fitted interior, above a pair of panelled doors, each outlined by an acanthus border and centred by a female mask, the side panels similar, on an undulating bracket base, third quarter 19th Century
56in. (142cm.) wide; 102in. (259cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

This boulle cabinet combined with Renaissance elements, relates to that exhibited by the Parisian ébeniste Alexander-George Fourdinois (d. 1871) of rue Amelot, at the Great Exhibition, London, 1851 (See Art-Journal Illustrated catalogue, 1851, p. 307).

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