Sale 7418
London
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13 September 2007
Price realised
GBP 12,500
Estimate
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY CHIFFONNIERES CIRCA 1900 Each with yellow brèche oval marble top with three-quarter pierced gallery, the frieze drawer, sides and back with flower-filled trellis parquetry above cabriole legs headed by channelled and swagged chutes and joined by an oval undertier platform conformingly veneered, terminating in small foliate sabots 29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Sotheby's London, 16 May 1997, lot 196.
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