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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
(Lots 286-290)
A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL, BOULLE MARQUETRY AND EBONY COMMODE**
CIRCA 1700, THE FEET LATER, LARGELY REMOUNTED
Details
A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL, BOULLE MARQUETRY AND EBONY COMMODE**
Circa 1700, the feet later, largely remounted
The shaped rectangular top inlaid with Berainesque scrolls, grotesques and strapwork with a central figure beneath a baldequin above an arc-en-arbalette form case with three drawers similarly inlaid and with Bacchus mask escutcheons, the sides also similarly inlaid, on later spiral twist feet, restorations to tortoiseshell and brass, with chalk number '2951' and 'NYS'
32¾in. (83.25cm.) high, 47¾in. (121.25cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep
Circa 1700, the feet later, largely remounted
The shaped rectangular top inlaid with Berainesque scrolls, grotesques and strapwork with a central figure beneath a baldequin above an arc-en-arbalette form case with three drawers similarly inlaid and with Bacchus mask escutcheons, the sides also similarly inlaid, on later spiral twist feet, restorations to tortoiseshell and brass, with chalk number '2951' and 'NYS'
32¾in. (83.25cm.) high, 47¾in. (121.25cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale from a Private Collection, Sotheby's New York, 19 November 1993, lot 44 ($87,750)