ID 1344987 
Lot 49  | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY DRESSING/WRITING TABLE
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000 
ATTRIBUTED TO ADRIEN-FAIZELOT DELORME, CIRCA 1750
The serpentine top with rounded corners centering marquetry birds amid a basket of flowers within a scrolling foliate border, the frieze fitted with a spring-loaded drawer to the front, enclosing a ratcheted leather-lined writing surface flanked by compartments covered in floral marquetry and opening to smaller drawers, the whole further fitted with a drawer at each end, the reverse side with a drawer fitted with a rising silk firescreen panel, on cabriole legs with foliate-cast chutes and sabots, 353 inscribed in chalk to underside
28 ¼ in. (71.5 cm.) high, 28 ¼ in. (71.5 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Partridge, London.
| Applied technique: | Ormolu | 
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| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Wood, Tulipwood | 
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV | 
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables | 
| Applied technique: | Ormolu | 
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| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Wood, Tulipwood | 
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV | 
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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