ID 1225357
Lot 50 | A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 100 000
ATTRIBUTED TO BOULLE FILS, CIRCA 1730-40
The rounded rectangular top lined with gilt-tooled black leather and mounted with broad matted border and acanthus angle-clasps, the frieze of sinuous outline centred by a framed recessed drawer lined with walnut, mounted with a mask of Democritus, flanked by two framed drawers and mounted with foliate escutcheons and handles, the reverse with three identically-mounted simulated drawers, the ends each with a waved apron centred by a mask of the youthful Bacchus, the angles mounted with satyr-masks with knotted beards below corner clasps, on cabriole legs ending in scrolling acanthus sabots
30 ¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 71 1/8 in. (182 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep
Provenance
Geoffrey Gilmour, Esq., Paris, by whom almost certainly acquired from B. Fabre et Fils, Paris.
Anonymous sale (Property of a Gentleman); Christie's, London, 4 July 1996, lot 313, where acquired by the present owner.
| Artist: | André-Charles Boulle (1642 - 1732) |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Artist: | André-Charles Boulle (1642 - 1732) |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Address of auction |
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