A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID AMARANTH BUREAU A CYLINDRE

Lot 443
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Lot 443 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID AMARANTH BUREAU A CYLINDRE
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$ 120 000 – 180 000
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID AMARANTH BUREAU A CYLINDRE

BY PIERRE GARNIER, CIRCA 1767

The rectangular top with a pierced balustraded three quarter gallery surrounding a shallow brass-inlaid cylinder opening to reveal a writing surface and small drawers, the lower part with a frieze drawer above a kneehole flanked by four drawers on each side, flanked and separated by brass-inlaid pilasters, the sides with cupboards, raised on a plinth base; with ink inscription 'faist p. garny Lordin...sogard / faist 1767 faist a.paris,' two drawers with a paper label with ink inscription 'Library' the underside of the drawer with printed 'Waring and Gillow' warehouse label inscribed in ink 'A.S. ... DR,' stamped fifteen times P. Garnier, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm.) high, 77 in. (195.5 cm.) wide, 39 in. (106.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly the collection of the President de Boullainvilliers, Château de Passy.

Probably acquired by Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon K.P. (1777-1839), 5 Carlton House Terrace, London; later at Tyttenhanger House, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

The Contents of Tyttenhanger House, St. Albans; Hertfordshire, Ralph Pay & Ransom House Sale, 27-29 June, 1972, lot 417.

Private European Collection; Christie's, Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 213.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.





Literature

A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 246.

C. Huchet de Quénetain, Pierre Garnier, Paris, 2003, pp. 98-99.



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