A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BUREAU MAZARIN
A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BUREAU MAZARIN

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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BUREAU MAZARIN
Decorated en premiere partie, with Bérainesque scenes, birds, insects, exotic animals, foliate arabesques, strapwork, husktrails the rectangular top centred by a foliage medallion above seven walnut-lined drawers around the panelled kneehole with raised panelled sides with conforming decoration on square tapering legs joined by waved stretchers on bun feet, one bun foot later, with an old paper label inscribed 'Cavendish Home Co. Limited No. 196', restorations, the stretcher resupported
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep
Provenance
Reputedly sold by the Earl of Rosebery from Mentmore Towers, Buckinghmashire.

Lot Essay

The remarkable collection at Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire was predominantly assembled by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (d.1874) who, ahead of contemporary taste, together with the 4th Lord Hertford, Leopold Double and the Earl of Pembroke, actively collected the finest French furniture and objets in the 1840's and 1850's. Published in a privately printed catalogue of 1884, Mentmore passed into the Rosebery family through the marriage of Hannah Rothschild in 1878.

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