Sale 7187
New York, East
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14 May 1991
Price realised
USD 11,000
Estimate
A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE À VANTAUX AFTER G. BENEMAN With a shaped rectangular green and white marble top above a conforming case fitted with two frieze drawers over two doors with a crescent panel applied with an armorial trophy enclosing three drawers between engaged colonnettes moulded as ribbon-tied arrows, on ormolu hairy paw feet--36½ in. (93 cm.) high, 71¾ in. (182 cm.) wide, 28¼ in. (72 cm.) deep
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