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    A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age

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    • A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED
    Lot 1253

    A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE

    BY JEAN HOLTHAUSEN, CIRCA 1770

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    USD 12,500

    Estimate

    USD 7,000 - USD 10,000

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    A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
    BY JEAN HOLTHAUSEN, CIRCA 1770
    The breakfront white-veined grey marble top with canted angles above two drawers inlaid sans tranverse on cabriole legs with lions' paws feet, stamped to the upper left corner twice J. HOLTHAUSEN and other indistinct stamps, the angle mounts 18th century and possibly associated
    33¼ in. (84.5 cm) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep

    Provenance

    Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2009, lot 82.

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    Lot Essay

    Jean Holthausen, maître in 1764.

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