ATTRIBUTED TO EMMANUEL ZWIENER, PARIS, CIRCA 1890

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE CABINET
ATTRIBUTED TO EMMANUEL ZWIENER, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
The shaped brocatelle d'Espagne marble top above a cupboard door and a drawer, the interior with two shelves, the fixed stand with a pull-out slide above a frieze drawer, on cabriole legs
58 ¼ in. (148 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide; 13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 March 2011, lot 388 (£12,500).

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Lot Essay

The present lot is closely related to a secrétaire à abattant by Zwiener fronted by a vernis Martin panel, which sold Sotheby's, New York, 26 October 2006, lot 137 ($42,000). Another illustrated in Lecoules, Antiquités, Paris, 1983, p. 30 sold Christie's, London, 25 February 1999, lot 67.

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