Lot 90
90
A FINE CARVED MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED DESK

LOUIS MAJORELLE, CIRCA 1900

Details
A FINE CARVED MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED DESK
Louis Majorelle, circa 1900
In the "Nénuphars" pattern, the shaped desk top with leather inset, the upper section with three drawers, each with ormolu pulls, the apron with two drawers with gilt-bronze lilypad pulls, each leg with finely cast gilt bronze mounts continuing the waterlily motif, with key
40in. (102cm.) high, 55½in. (141cm.) wide, 34in. (86.4cm.) deep
Provenance
The John and Katsy Mecom Collection
Sotheby's New York, October 3, 1992, lot 78

Lot Essay

cf. Majorelle--Nancy: Décorations D'Intérieurs Meubles-Tentures-Bronzes-Ferronneries (cat.) and Alastair Duncan, Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, 1991, p. 168, fig. 14 for period illustrations of study room (Cabinet de Travail) furniture which includes this desk model with the waterlily motif. The model is also illustrated as fig. 46 in the color plates of Duncan's book.