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A RESTAURATION GILT METAL MOUNTED, EBONISED, BRASS, PEWTER, COPPER AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID MEUBLE D'APPUI

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A RESTAURATION GILT METAL MOUNTED, EBONISED, BRASS, PEWTER, COPPER AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID MEUBLE D'APPUI
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With a brown marble top above a foliate and rosette guilloche frieze, the door with a foliate inlaid panel centred by a coat of arms, and flanked by panelled pilasters with acanthus scrolls and foliate swags, the sides with figures representing the seasons, on a raised plinth centred by a bearded mask and with turned feet
40½in. (103cm.) high, 32½in. (83cm.) wide, 12½in. (31cm. )deep

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Lot Essay

The antiquarian Louis Quatorze cabinet constructed by a parisian fabricant de meubles en marqueterie de Boulle displays a 17th C filigreed panel, whose laurelled Roman acanthus reflects the antique fashion popularised by P.A.Ducereau's Dessins pour Tables, Bureaux et autres Ouvrages de Marqueterie as issued in the 1670's by N.I.Langlois. It incorporates a foliate-wreathed and crown-ensigned armorial bearing the Order of the Golden Fleece, and resting on a trophy of arms while supported by Mars and Minerva and attended by trumpeting Fame.
The sides' bronze figures personify two seasons and featured in a published engraving of an Armoire des Saisons that was invented towards the end of his career by the celebrated ebeniste André-Charles Boulle (d.1732). See J.N.Ronfort, André-Charles Boulle, Dossier de l'Art, no.124, November 2005, fig.27.

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