Lot Essay
Another secretaire, identical but for slightly different painted panels, was sold Sotheby's New York, 12 September 1995, lot 164 ($16,100).
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CIRCA 1890
Details
A Louis XVI style ormolu and porcelain-mounted mahogany and parquetry secretaire a abattant
Circa 1890
The rectangular brèche d'alep marble top with canted front corners and a pierced three-quarter gallery, above the conforming case centred with a trellis-inlay panelled fall-front with a central oval plaque of birds within a green border, the cabochons with similar floral plaquettes, opening to reveal a velved writing-surface, a pair of shelves and a pigeon hole beneath a shelf, above a pair of similarly-decorated cupboard doors opening to reveal a single shelf, the sides with trellis panels, the fluted angles with bellfowers, on toupie feet, the reverse with a plaque stamped FREDERICK LITCHFIELD/THE/SINCLAIR GALLERIES/555759.SHAFTESBURY AVENUE/LONDON W, and stencilled with FRANCE
40 5/8in. (103.2cm.) high; 25¾in. (65.3cm.) wide; 12¾in. (32.4cm.) deep
Circa 1890
The rectangular brèche d'alep marble top with canted front corners and a pierced three-quarter gallery, above the conforming case centred with a trellis-inlay panelled fall-front with a central oval plaque of birds within a green border, the cabochons with similar floral plaquettes, opening to reveal a velved writing-surface, a pair of shelves and a pigeon hole beneath a shelf, above a pair of similarly-decorated cupboard doors opening to reveal a single shelf, the sides with trellis panels, the fluted angles with bellfowers, on toupie feet, the reverse with a plaque stamped FREDERICK LITCHFIELD/THE/SINCLAIR GALLERIES/555759.SHAFTESBURY AVENUE/LONDON W, and stencilled with FRANCE
40 5/8in. (103.2cm.) high; 25¾in. (65.3cm.) wide; 12¾in. (32.4cm.) deep