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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND CUT BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND EBONISED MEUBLES D'APPUI

OF LOUIS XIV STYLE, BY MATHIEU BEFORT, DIT BEFORT JEUNE, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND CUT BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, EBONY AND EBONISED MEUBLES D'APPUI
OF LOUIS XIV STYLE, BY MATHIEU BEFORT, DIT BEFORT JEUNE, PARIS, MID-19TH CENTURY
Each with later rectangular and eared black marble top, above an ancathus leaf cast frieze and a pair of cupboard doors with figural mounts emblematic of the seasons amidst arabesque-scrolls, the interior with three red-velvet lined shelves, the canted angles headed by bearded-herms, on a shaped apron
44 in. (112 cm.) high; 48¼ in. (112.5 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep (2)

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These cabinets are by Mathieu Befort, dit Befort Jeune. The corners of the apron are stamped BEFORT JEUNE.

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These meubles d'appui relate to the oeuvreof Befort Jeune. Mathieu Befort, dit Befort Jeune, was the son of Jean-Baptiste Befort (d. 1840), who established his Paris workshops in 1817 in the faubourg Saint-Honoré. He was a brother of Bernard Befort, ébéniste-marqueteur and 'antiquaire' and like him specialised in 'meubles de Boulle'. Befort favoured the Louis XIV and Regence styles and copied the most famous pieces of the period such as Boulle's magnificent armoires à médaille, a mid-19th century version of which by Befort sold Christie's, 28 September 2006, lot 53 (£84,000). The firm received a medal at the 1844 Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie française. Befort Jeune was recorded at Neuves-Saint-Gilles from 1844 until 1880.

A meuble d'appui with 'Boulle' marquetry and of similar proportions but dating to circa 1710, sold from the Wildenstein Collection, Christie's, 14-15 December 2005, lot 33. It was later mounted with the same figures of Ceres and Dionysus, which are two of the figures of the seasons which feature to this pair.