A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE

CIRCA 1750

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE
Circa 1750
The rectangular top with gilt-tooled green-leather writing-surface, with a drawer to one side, the angles with foliate guilloche mounts, on cabriole legs and scrolled sabots, with typed paper label Collection André Meyer New York 1970 and another C15, the drawer originally fitted
24½in. (62.2cm.) high, 29½in. (75cm.) wide, 19in. (48.3cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The distinctive overlapping-guilloche angle-mounts are of very similar model to those employed by both Jean-Pierre Latz (1691-1754) and Bernard II van Risenburgh (maître in 1733), as can be seen on the tables sold from the Alexander Collection at Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lots 93 and 101-2 respectively. This would perhaps suggest that the ébéniste responsible for this table à écrire was also working for the same marchand-mercier, who in turn supplied the mounts.

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