PROPERTY FROM AN OHIO ESTATE (LOTS 134-205)

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, ACAJOU MOUCHETE AND COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, ACAJOU MOUCHETE AND COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with a three-quarter balustrade gallery above a paneled frieze centered with a guilloche mount, the fall-front decorated with birds and flowering branches, opening to a green velvet-lined writing surface, two shelves and four drawers, the base with a drawer centered by a cartouche with a scrolled vine and putto mount, on four tapering fluted legs joined by a shaped undertier
56¾ in. (144 cm.) high; 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (37 cm.) deep

Provenance

A Private Collection: Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 54.

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Lot Essay

A secretaire à abattant of this model signed by Paul Sormani, without the lacquer decoration, sold Christie's, New York, 9 April 2008, lot 73. Another with a Japanese lacquer panel and attributed to Paul Sormani, sold Christie's, Paris, 17 June 2003, lot 80.

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