a french buffet a deux corps Possibly Paris, circa 1880

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Description

height 68 3/4 in.; width 37 1/8 in.; depth 15 1/4 in.
174.5 cm; 94.3 cm; 38.7 cm

carved and parcel gilt walnut, satinwood and palissandre interior, three vernis Martin panels, bevelled glass and mirror.

Catalogue Note

The central vernis Martin panel is painted after Jean-honore Fragonard's The Fountain of Love, now in the permanent collection of the Getty museum in Malibu. The story of the garden of love is an allegory of the nature and progress of love taking its source in the poetry of the classical antiquity.