Lot Essay
Etienne Levasseur, maître in 1766.
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STAMPED TWICE 'E LEVASSEUR' AND THREE TIMES 'JME', CIRCA 1780, CONVERTED FROM A BUREAU A CYLINDRE
Details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT
STAMPED TWICE 'E LEVASSEUR' AND THREE TIMES 'JME', CIRCA 1780, CONVERTED FROM A BUREAU A CYLINDRE
The canted rectangular top with inset green leather writing-surface and molded edge, above the quarter-veneered sides with one frieze-drawer flanked by two short drawers to the left and one deep coffre fort drawer to the right, on square tapering legs with twisted ormolu angles and on caps, stamped to the left inside of knee-hole and to the underside of the coffre fort drawer
29½ in. (75 cm.) high, 56 in. (142 cm.) wide, 30½ in. (78 cm.) deep
STAMPED TWICE 'E LEVASSEUR' AND THREE TIMES 'JME', CIRCA 1780, CONVERTED FROM A BUREAU A CYLINDRE
The canted rectangular top with inset green leather writing-surface and molded edge, above the quarter-veneered sides with one frieze-drawer flanked by two short drawers to the left and one deep coffre fort drawer to the right, on square tapering legs with twisted ormolu angles and on caps, stamped to the left inside of knee-hole and to the underside of the coffre fort drawer
29½ in. (75 cm.) high, 56 in. (142 cm.) wide, 30½ in. (78 cm.) deep
Provenance
Eleanor Bostwick, Old Westbury, Long Island.