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    Sale 7418

    Furniture and Sculpture including the Property of a Roman Collector

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    13 September 2007

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    • A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTE
    Lot 1349

    A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY CHIFFONNIERES

    CIRCA 1900

    Price realised

    GBP 12,500

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    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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