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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINE AND TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINE AND TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
CIRCA 1780
The brèche d'Alep marble top above a frieze drawer and fall-front revealing a fitted interior with pigeon holes and drawers and green leather-lined writing surface, above two cupboard doors enclosing an open compartment above four oak drawers, veneered in rosette-filled trellis parquetry throughout, bearing spurious stamp 'I.C. SAUNIER' and 'JME', the lower interior later adapted, possibly originally fitted with a coffre-fort interior
56 in. (142 cm.) high; 37 in. (94 cm.) wide; 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Giuseppe Rossi, Turin, 1962.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A closely related secrétaire à abattant, with identical distinctive rosette-filled trellis parquetry and stamped with the unrecorded ébéniste mark 'T. Brasseur', was part of the Rossi collection, sold at Sotheby's, Milan, 10 November 1999, lot 1243.

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