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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BUREAU PLAT

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£ 200 000
Auction dateClassic
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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Lot 3 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BUREAU PLAT
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BUREAU PLAT
BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR, CIRCA 1770
The rectangular top inset with green gilt-tooled leather writing surface within a tooled border, the frieze inset with three drawers decorated with raised panels inlaid with brass stringing and centred by laurel wreath-tied escutcheons flanked by rosettes, with opposing false drawers, with two lateral writing slides on square tapering legs with re-entrant corners headed by laurel swags terminating in square sabots, stamped twice ‘E. LEVASSEUR’; the interior constructional frame with signs of re-used timbers in the 18th century making
29 ¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high; 63 ¾ (162 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep




Provenance

With Fabre, Paris.
Supplied by Albert Hadley for the Leonard Davis House, Palm Beach.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2001, lot 350.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s New York, 29 October 2019, lot 1016.



Literature

C. Massin, Mobilier Louis XVI, Paris, n.d., p. 55 (illustrated).
A. Lewis, Albert Hadley: The Story of America's Preeminent Interior Designer, 2005 (illustrated).
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