BY JOSEPH FEUERSTEIN

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A LOUIS XV TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED SECRETAIRE
By Joseph Feuerstein
With later rounded rectangular breccia marble top above two spreading frieze drawers and a fall-flap to each side, enclosing six drawers in three tiers and twelve compartments, the lower part with two short drawers with central locking system and two long drawers to each side, on short cabriole legs and foliate sabots, stamped twice 'FEURSTEIN' and 'JME'
54½ in. (138.5 cm.) high; 38½ in. (98 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep
Joseph Feuerstein, maître in 1767.

Provenance

W.J.R. Dreesmann; Frederik Muller & Cie. , Amsterdam, 22 March 1960, lot 449 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. D-41).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This secretaire has the unusual feature of two fall-fronts, each enclosing a fitted interior, and was probably conceived to be placed in the middle of a room, or with one of the sides against a wall. While double-sided secretaires of this type are virtually unknown, we do know a small number of bureaux à double faces. The most celebrated example of this type is undoubtedly the magnificent bureau by BVRB from the collections of fermier général François Balthazar Dangé and subsequently the Dukes of Argyll, which is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1993, p. 36, fig. 41).

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