BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1879

Details

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT
BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1879
The earred rectangular top with three-quarter balustrade gallery and inset with gilt-embossed leather writing surface above a central freize drawer with acanthus and floral garland entrelace mount to both the front and reverse, flanked to each side with two short drawers with ebony-strung trellis parquetry and shield escutcheons each side with leather-inset slide writing surface and corresponding parquetry centred by flower-filled urn mount above a shaped apron, on fluted tapering legs, signed and dated 'henry Dasson 1879' and stamped 'HENRY DASSON / 1879'
30 ¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 57 in. (145 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 March 1969, lot 116, where acquired by present owner.

Special notice

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Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

This bureau plat, displaying mounts and motifs unique to Riesener's oeuvre, is an exemplary replica by Henry Dasson of a celebrated bureau delivered by Riesener in 1784 for the Cabinet Intérieur du Roi at Fontainebleau, now lost.

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