Lot Essay
Bernard Molitor, maître in 1787.
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BY BERNARD MOLITOR, LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ADAPTED FROM A CYLINDER BUREAU
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU PLAT
BY BERNARD MOLITOR, LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ADAPTED FROM A CYLINDER BUREAU
With inset brown tooled leather top above a writing slide to each and an arrangement of drawers, the right drawer fitted with a coffre fort, the reverse with false drawers, on tapering fluted legs, stamped B. MOLITOR to front rail
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high, 57 in. (145 cm.) wide, 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) deep
BY BERNARD MOLITOR, LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ADAPTED FROM A CYLINDER BUREAU
With inset brown tooled leather top above a writing slide to each and an arrangement of drawers, the right drawer fitted with a coffre fort, the reverse with false drawers, on tapering fluted legs, stamped B. MOLITOR to front rail
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high, 57 in. (145 cm.) wide, 28 ¼ in. (72 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Grognot-Joinel & Cie., Paris, in 1954.
Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection.
Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection.