Sale 5786
London
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2 May 1997
Price realised
GBP 5,175
Estimate
A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE En-suite with the following lot, the rectangular fossil black marble top above an overhanging moulded frieze-drawer and three long drawers, each with an escutcheon with two putti flanking a palm tree and the handles with a foliate spray and lappeted foliate ring-handle, flanked by a volute to each side headed by a foliate mount and terminating in a lion-paw foot, on a plinth with turned angles and with ball feet, the reverse with an old transport label inscribed 'Gare Expeditrice Saumur gare destinataire Vincennes... Par Juvisy' 51 in. (130 cm.) wide; 36 in. (91 cm.) high; 26½ in. (67 cm.) deep
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