A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE CABINETS - photo 1
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE CABINETS

Lot 35
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 300 000
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CHRISTIE'S
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1450975
Lot 35 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE CABINETS
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SIDE CABINETS
CIRCA 1785, POSSIBLY BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR
Each with canted rectangular inset red-marble top, the beaded rim with egg-and-dart moulding above two panelled doors each with early 18th Century Japanese lacquer panel decorated in iroe hiramakie and takamakie with a hawk on a perch within a border of stiff leaves, the interior formerly with shelves, between fluted canted angles, the panelled sides each inset with a late 17th/early 18th Century Japanese lacquer panel decorated with a vase of flowers in gold and black hiramakie on a roironuri ground, on canted rectangular plinth cast with stiff leaves, and toupie feet with acanthus scrolled mounts and ball feet, with repair to marbles, one inscribed N°2
42 ½ in. (108 cm.) wide; 39 ¾ in. (101 cm.) high; 19 ¾ in. (50 cm.) deep, each




Provenance

Madame Edward Esmond, née Valentine Deutsch de la Meurthe (1884-1969);
Sybil Billotte, née Esmond (1908-1984), by descent from the above;
General Pierre Billotte (1906-1992), by descent from the above and from whom acquired by
the present owner as payment for services rendered in the late 1980s.



Exhibited

Oliver Impey, Christiaan Jörg, “Japanese Export Lacquer 1580-1850”, 2005, Amsterdam, p. 298, fig. 588.
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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