拍品 555
555
A FRENCH EBONISED ORMOLU MOUNTED LAPIS AND PIETRA DURA MOUNTED SIDE CABINET, 19TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH EBONISED ORMOLU MOUNTED LAPIS AND PIETRA DURA MOUNTED SIDE CABINET, 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH EBONISED ORMOLU MOUNTED LAPIS AND PIETRA DURA MOUNTED SIDE CABINET, 19TH CENTURY
With canted angles, surmounted by a black marble top with an ormolu moulded edge and frieze with pierced acanthus and guilloche ornament with laurel border enclosed by a panel door with a central oval, ribbon and laurel tied panel applied with a spray of flowers, fruit, a butterfly and a bird in coloured hard stones within a lapis veneered surround with similar fruit and flower spandrels within foliate geometric borders applied with a pierced lyre key plate between canted angles with pierced trailing ornament and female figures on fluted tapering pedestals, with a shaped apron applied with palm spray and inlaid with brass lines, the sides with baskets of flowers and foliate ornament, stamped underneath the right corner frieze BEFORT JEUNE
43¼in. (110cm.) wide, 18½in. (47cm.) deep, 52½in. (133.5cm.) high
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Mathieu Befort 'Jeune' was the son of Jean-Baptiste Befort (d.1840), who established his Paris workshops in 1817 in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré. He was a brother of Jean-Baptiste Befort, ebeniste-marqueteur and 'antiquaire' and like him specialised in 'meubles de Boulle'. The firm received a medal at the 1844 Paris exhibition. Befort Jeune was recorded at Neuves-Saint-Gilles from 1844 until 1880.

The office of Sir Arthur Gilbert reconstructed in Somerset House has a pair of similar cabinets, stamped Beaufort Jeune (illustrated in The Gilbert Collection: Hardstones, p.67). With further similarities to a matched pair of ormolu-mounted, ebonised and pietra dura side cabinets sold at Christie's 16th February 1989 lot 93.

With similar figurative mounts to those on a commode by Beneman sold in a sale on November 19 1993 at Sotheby's New York, of Highly Important French Furniture From a Private Collection, lot 66.