Lot Essay
Pierre Roussel, maître in 1745.
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PROPERTY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (LOT 205)
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1760
Details
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1760
With a figured marble top above a frieze drawer, the fall-front inlaid with a bouquet and revealing a fitted interior and leather writing surface, above a pair of doors enclosing a shelf, stamped ROUSSEL and JME to the reverse, red museum accession numbers
50½ in. (128 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 12½ in. (32 cm.) deep
BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1760
With a figured marble top above a frieze drawer, the fall-front inlaid with a bouquet and revealing a fitted interior and leather writing surface, above a pair of doors enclosing a shelf, stamped ROUSSEL and JME to the reverse, red museum accession numbers
50½ in. (128 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 12½ in. (32 cm.) deep
Provenance
Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1946.
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