A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY GERVAIS DURAND

With a rounded rectangular ormolu-moulded top inset with a gilt-tooled green leather surface above a frieze drawer applied with vitruvian scrolls flanked by pedestals each fitted with three drawers opposed by three similarly marked drawers, on turned tapering legs with cap feet, stamped 'G. DURAND'--30½in. (77.5cm.) high, 64½in. (163.8cm.) wide, 41in. (104.1cm.) deep

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Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand is recorded as having worked at 62, rue Saint-Antoine. He participated in the Exposition Universelle of 1889 where he was awarded a silver medal(See D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, 1984, p. 181).