Lot 193 A
193 A
Various Properties
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU PLAT, in the Régence style, the shaped rectangular top with a tooled leather writing surface, above a frieze with three drawers, the reverse with three apparent drawers, the sides with female masks, on square shaped legs headed by caryatids with acanthus clasps, on acanthus-cast and claw sabots

Details
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TULIPWOOD BUREAU PLAT, in the Régence style, the shaped rectangular top with a tooled leather writing surface, above a frieze with three drawers, the reverse with three apparent drawers, the sides with female masks, on square shaped legs headed by caryatids with acanthus clasps, on acanthus-cast and claw sabots
70in. (178cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 35¼in. (89.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This bureau plat is designed from a model made by André-Charles Boulle during the 1720s. The Duc de Bourbon commissioned a Bureau Plat of the same type, which is now at Versailles.
Another similar bureau plat was sold in these Rooms 177 March 1994, lot 99.

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