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Lot 65
22.10.2020 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
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$ 1 134 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 380141
Lot 65 | A LATE LOUIS XVI PIETRA DURA AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY SECRÉT...
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 1 000 000
A LATE LOUIS XVI PIETRA DURA AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY SECRÉTAIRE EN CABINET

BY ADAM WEISWEILER AND ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE, CIRCA 1785-1790, THE ORMOLU POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS REMOND, THE PIETRA DURA PLAQUES ATTRIBUTED TO THE GRAND DUCAL WORKSHOPS, FLORENCE, LATE 17TH CENTURY (THE FLORAL AND LANDSCAPE PLAQUES) AND SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY (THE FIGURAL PLAQUES)

With a rectangular Spanish brocatelle marble top above a scalloped foliate rosette frieze centered with a plaque of putti holding floral garlands in the clouds over a cabinet door flanked by engaged fluted and turned columns and with a central pietra paesina plaque depicting a huntsman and dog beside a tower surrounded by pietra dura plaques of turbanned gentleman, floral sprays and ribbon-tied floral sprays, one with a bird, all within beaded borders and opening to four acajou moucheté drawers, the sides with female caryatids in ormolu, resting on a stand with a breakfronted frieze drawer inset with latticework panels and opening to a tooled leather writing surface flanked by ormolu-mounted inkwell and two niches raised on brass-inlaid engaged columns joined by a Spanish brocatelle marble medial shelf continuing to brass-inlaid circular tapering legs terminating in ormolu caps, with partial stamp A WEI..., one effaced stamp and JME

52 in. (132 cm.) high, 31 in. (79 cm.) wide, 16 ¼ in. (41 cm.) deep

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