A LOUIS XVI BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE A ECRIRE by Fidelys Schey, the part green leather-lined rectangular top above three panelled frieze drawers and three simulated drawers to the reverse, on turned tapering fluted legs with fluted capitals and turned tapering feet, stamped once F. SCHEY and once SCHEY, restorations, one drawer-lining with associated inventory numbers and Fontainebleau Château mark

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A LOUIS XVI BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE A ECRIRE by Fidelys Schey, the part green leather-lined rectangular top above three panelled frieze drawers and three simulated drawers to the reverse, on turned tapering fluted legs with fluted capitals and turned tapering feet, stamped once F. SCHEY and once SCHEY, restorations, one drawer-lining with associated inventory numbers and Fontainebleau Château mark
38½in. (98cm.) wide; 29½in. (79cm.) high; 20½in. (62cm.) deep

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Fidelys Schey, maître in 1777.

Fidelys Schey worked from a shop in the rue Faubourg-Saint-Antoine in Paris with a saleroom adjacent, run by his wife. He mainly produced mahogany and mahogany-veneered furniture. In 1786 he delivered several pieces of furniture, including two tables à jeux, to the château de Fontainebleau.

A closely related bureau-plat was sold anonymously at Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 15 April 1989, lot 143

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