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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE AND MAHOGANY DEMI-LUNE CARD-AND TEA-TABLE

BY BERNARD MOLITOR, CIRCA 1810

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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE AND MAHOGANY DEMI-LUNE CARD-AND TEA-TABLE
BY BERNARD MOLITOR, CIRCA 1810
With triple-flap top, the lowest lined with green baize, above a panel frieze with one drawer, on chamfered tapering legs and brass caps and castors stamped 'HORN', the drawer stamped 'B MOLITOR' with 'Madame Guibourt' inscribed in pencil
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 42½ in. (108 cm.) wide; 21¼ in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

Madame Guibourt.

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Lot Essay

This or a very closely related table à jeux circulaire is illustrated in U. Leben, Molitor, Ebéniste New York, 1992, p.199, cat. no. 118. Leben's comprehensive research on Bernard Molitor (d. 1833) demonstrates the diversity of the oeuvre of this talented German-born Ebébniste.

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