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    Sale 5786

    Fine Continental Furniture, Tapestries & Carpets

    London

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    2 May 1997

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    Lot 167

    A CHARLES X ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE

    Price realised

    GBP 5,175

    Estimate

    GBP 5,000 - GBP 8,000

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    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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