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Lot Essay
This richly mounted bureau plat, dependent upon the contrast of its restrained figured veneers for effect, reflects the goût Grec style of the 1760's. This Neoclassic style was first introduced in the preceeding decade by the influential architect, Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, probably working in collaboration with a marchand-mercier such as Simon-Phillipe Poirier, for the celebrated suite of furniture supplied for the Parisian hôtel of the amateur Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully circa 1755.
With its three panelled drawers to the frieze and ormolu pattera-headed tapering square panelled legs, this bureau plat is of similar character to that in amaranth and tulipwood by Jean-François Leleu (maître in 1761) illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 515.
With its three panelled drawers to the frieze and ormolu pattera-headed tapering square panelled legs, this bureau plat is of similar character to that in amaranth and tulipwood by Jean-François Leleu (maître in 1761) illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 515.