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PROPERTY FROM THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART,
SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND
(Lots 317-319)
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE, AMARANTH AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
STAMPED TWICE N.PETIT AND THREE TIMES JME, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY ORIGINAL AND REGILT
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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE, AMARANTH AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
STAMPED TWICE N.PETIT AND THREE TIMES JME, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY ORIGINAL AND REGILT
The molded and shaped brêche d'Alep marble top above the fall-front inlaid with a spray of flowers and geometric band, enclosing a fruitwood-lined fitted interior with red velvet-lined writing-surface, six drawers and five recesses, above two conforming doors enclosing one shelf, the rounded angles with lion's mask mounts and patera and the shaped sides with two panels of conforming inlay, on cabriole legs with scrolling foliate sabots, remounted, the lower doors locked, variously numbered
50½ in. (129 cm.) high, 40 in. (101 cm.) wide, 15½ in. (40 cm.) deep
The marble inscribed in blue to underside 38432/4, the back with label inscribed A.5770.47.38, the back inscribed in white B14.32, the back with further illegible label, the underside of drawer 6 to interior in red 77146
STAMPED TWICE N.PETIT AND THREE TIMES JME, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS PROBABLY ORIGINAL AND REGILT
The molded and shaped brêche d'Alep marble top above the fall-front inlaid with a spray of flowers and geometric band, enclosing a fruitwood-lined fitted interior with red velvet-lined writing-surface, six drawers and five recesses, above two conforming doors enclosing one shelf, the rounded angles with lion's mask mounts and patera and the shaped sides with two panels of conforming inlay, on cabriole legs with scrolling foliate sabots, remounted, the lower doors locked, variously numbered
50½ in. (129 cm.) high, 40 in. (101 cm.) wide, 15½ in. (40 cm.) deep
The marble inscribed in blue to underside 38432/4, the back with label inscribed A.5770.47.38, the back inscribed in white B14.32, the back with further illegible label, the underside of drawer 6 to interior in red 77146