A REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BIBLIOTHEQUE

LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY

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A REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BIBLIOTHEQUE
Late 19th/20th Century
The arched hood over a pair of cabinet doors, the upper half of which are glazed and the lower half are mounted with figures representing medicine and astronomy, the canted corners with stop-fluted pilasters, inlaid throughout with scrolling brass inlay, on paterae-headed feet, some of the mounts numbered
105½in. (268cm.) high, 59in. (150cm.) wide, 20in. (51cm.) deep

Provenance

Collection of Anne Ford Johnson.
Acquired from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, November 1970 ($15,000).

Lot Essay

This bibliothèque, with differences in the arched cornice, base, the mounts of the base and capitals of the pilasters and spandrel mounts, and with the addition of veneer and brass inlay, is modelled after a bibliothèque attributed to Charles Cressent which was also with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, and is illustrated in C. Packer Paris Furniture by Master Ebénistes, Newport, 1956, fig. 9.

An identical bibliothèque was sold Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1992, lot 52 ($60,000). This was possibly the property of Lydia Morrison.

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