AFTER RENÉ DUBOIS, BY GHISLAIN CHARVET, 20TH CENTURY

The present tables à écrire are after the late Louis XV ormolu-mounted amaranth and bois satiné bureau plat by René Dubois, circa 1763-1765, formerly in the Collection of Sir Charles Mills, Bt., (1792-1872), by descent to Charles 4th Lord Hillingdon, by whose Trustees, sold Christie's, London, 29 June 1972 lot 83 (10,000gns or £ 10,500) to Walter Lees. The pronounced marquetry displaying a variation on a Greek-key frieze, is an early example of a more moderately scaled piece of furniture in the so-called gout-grec style, the early phase of French neo-classicism.