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A Napoleon III premiere partie gilt-bronze mounted brass-inlaid, ebony, red tortoiseshell and boulle marquetry bureau mazarin circa 1860
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description
- height 30 in.; width 5 ft.; depth 32 1/4 in.
- 76.2 cm; 152.5 cm; 82 cm
with boulle marquetry design in the Bérainese style, the rectangular top above a central frieze drawer above a kneehole cupboard door, flanked on each side by three drawers, on scrolled feet joined by X-shaped stretchers to each side, terminating on eight paw feet.
Literature
Related literature: T. A. Strange, French Interiors, Furniture and Decorations during the 17th and 18th Centuries, London, 1950, pp. 90-112.
Catalogue Note
This bureau mazarin is closely related to a model by Charles-André Boulle (1642-1732) and to the grotesques designs of the ornemaniste Jean Berain (1640-1711), déssinateur de la chambre et du cabinet du Roi, LOUIS XIV.
Another example with similar decor and construction, but with contra-partie boulle marquetry, sold, Christie's, London, May 14, lot 28.