A PAIR OF BRASS AND PEWTER-INLAID EBONY, TORTOISHELL AND BOULLE MARQUETRY SIDE CABINETS by Pierre Etienne Levasseur, and en suite with the preceding lot, mounted overall in gilt-bronze, inlaid overall with foliate marquetry, one in premier and the other in contre-partie, each with rectangular portor marble top above a cornile of egg-and-dart and frieze of acanthus divided by scrolls, with three drawers with leaf borders and centred by masks, the panelled sides with central rosettes and stiff-leaf borders, on leaf-cup feet, each stamped twice E. LEVASSEUR, restorations, early 19th Century

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A PAIR OF BRASS AND PEWTER-INLAID EBONY, TORTOISHELL AND BOULLE MARQUETRY SIDE CABINETS by Pierre Etienne Levasseur, and en suite with the preceding lot, mounted overall in gilt-bronze, inlaid overall with foliate marquetry, one in premier and the other in contre-partie, each with rectangular portor marble top above a cornile of egg-and-dart and frieze of acanthus divided by scrolls, with three drawers with leaf borders and centred by masks, the panelled sides with central rosettes and stiff-leaf borders, on leaf-cup feet, each stamped twice E. LEVASSEUR, restorations, early 19th Century
32¼in. (81.9cm.) wide; 38¼in. (97.2cm.) high; 18¼in. (46.4cms.) deep (2)
Provenance
Possibly Philippe François Julliot, as marchand-mercier Descendants of one of Napoleon's generals
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 7 May 1983, lot 212 (a set of four)
Literature
A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 309, no. 350 (one cabinet)

Lot Essay

See footnote to preceding lot

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