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A LATE VICTORIAN GILT METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY OPEN BOOKCASE
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A LATE VICTORIAN GILT METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY OPEN BOOKCASE

BY MELLIER AND CO, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, OF LOUIS XVI STYLE

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A LATE VICTORIAN GILT METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY OPEN BOOKCASE
BY MELLIER AND CO, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, OF LOUIS XVI STYLE
With a white marble top above an egg-and-dart and foliate-bordered frieze with rectangular rosette clasps, the adjustable open shelves flanked by beaded panelled pilasters and smiliar sides, on a reed-and- tie mounted plinth and turned feet, branded to the reverse 'C.MELLIER & CO LONDON. W'
53½in. (136cm.) high; 47in. (120cm.) wide; 10½in (27cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

Mellier & Co of 2 Frith St, near Soho Square, and later Margaret St, advertised themselves as 'specialists in the rich decorative styles of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries'. They became best known for their fine reproductions of antique French furniture and were among the English manufacturers who exhibited at the 1904 St Louis International Exhibition.

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