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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH, EBONY AND CHINESE COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT

Lot 72
12.12.2024 16:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 72 | A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH, EBONY AND CHINESE COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT
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$ 60 000 – 100 000
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH, EBONY AND CHINESE COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT
BY CHARLES TOPINO, CIRCA 1775
The veined white marble top with outset corners, above a frieze drawer mounted with Vitruvian scrolls flanked by lion masks, the fall-front faced with a lacquer panel depicting scholarly objects in a landscape, opening to a fitted interior including walnut-lined drawers, over two cupboard doors enclosing two drawers and a coffre-fort, the lacquer panels to the sides with mythical beasts, stamped twice C TOPINO, and once JME atop the case, with old Chenue shipping label to reverse inscribed Mme La Princesse.../ ... Foch, 15
51 in. (129.5 cm.) high, 36 in. (91.5 cm.) wide, 14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) deep




Provenance

Collection of Marie-Charlotte-Constance Say, princesse Amédée de Broglie.
Acquired from Kraemer, Paris.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Grands Ebenistes et Menuisiers Parisiens, Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1956, cat. no. 322, pl. 23.
Y. Brunhammer, "The Eighteenth Century: France", in H. Hayward, ed., World Furniture, 1965, p. 118, fig. 434.
S. Barbier Sainte Marie, Charles Topino circa 1742-1803, Paris, 2005, pp. 110-111, fig. 49.



Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Grands Ébénistes et Menuisiers Parisiens du XVIIIe Siècle, December 1955 - February 1956, cat. no. 322.
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