Lot Essay
The present bureau plat is a faithful reproduction of Guillaume Benneman's celebrated model executed in 1787 for the the library of Louis XVI at Compiègne. The original now resides in the Louvre.
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AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU PLAT
AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top set with a gilt-tooled brown leather writing surface, over a conforming stepped frieze set on one side with a central guilloche-decorated drawer and two flanking drawers with lion-mask handles, with replaced locks stamped JT NEEDS/100 NEW BOND STREET and LATE/JB PAMBAH/184 PICCADILLY below a crown, the reverse set with similarly-decorated false drawers and a long writing slide, the sides each with a writing slide, on square tapering legs each headed with floral festoons
Closed: 30 3/8 in. (77 cm.) high; 71¼ in. (181 cm.) wide; 35½ in. (90 cm.) wide; Extended: 30 3/8 in. (70 cm.) high; 103 1/8 in. (262 cm.) wide; 49 3/8 in. (125.5 cm.) wide
AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top set with a gilt-tooled brown leather writing surface, over a conforming stepped frieze set on one side with a central guilloche-decorated drawer and two flanking drawers with lion-mask handles, with replaced locks stamped JT NEEDS/100 NEW BOND STREET and LATE/JB PAMBAH/184 PICCADILLY below a crown, the reverse set with similarly-decorated false drawers and a long writing slide, the sides each with a writing slide, on square tapering legs each headed with floral festoons
Closed: 30 3/8 in. (77 cm.) high; 71¼ in. (181 cm.) wide; 35½ in. (90 cm.) wide; Extended: 30 3/8 in. (70 cm.) high; 103 1/8 in. (262 cm.) wide; 49 3/8 in. (125.5 cm.) wide