A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT by Jacques Dubois, the serpentine red leather-lined top with crossbanded border and moulded rim, the angles with rockwork cabochon clasps, above three frieze drawers and three simulated drawers with foliate pierced handles and divisions, on cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate mountes and on foliate sabots, re-mounted and restorations to interior and top, stamped DUBOIS and JME

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT by Jacques Dubois, the serpentine red leather-lined top with crossbanded border and moulded rim, the angles with rockwork cabochon clasps, above three frieze drawers and three simulated drawers with foliate pierced handles and divisions, on cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate mountes and on foliate sabots, re-mounted and restorations to interior and top, stamped DUBOIS and JME
56½in. (143.5cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 31½in. (80cm.) deep
Provenance
Bought from Partridge on 13 July 1965 for #6,000

Lot Essay

Jacques Dubois, maître in 1742

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