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A Louis XVI Ormolu Mounted Bois Satiné, Tulipwood, Kingwood and Marquetry Secrétaire à Abattant Circa 1775, Stamped C. Wolff
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Christophe Wolff maître in 1755
- height 4ft 10 1/2 in.; width 46in.; depth 16in.
- (148.6cm; 116.8cm; 40.6cm)
the rectangular grey veined marble top above a frieze drawer and a fall front inlaid with a hunting scene surrounded by foliate trails and scrolls opening to form a writing surface and reveal a fitted interior, the cupboard doors below inlaid with hunting trophies within a foliate cartouche, enclosing a single shelf above two short drawers and a coffre fort.
Catalogue Note
A comparable secrétaire à abattant by Wolff belonging to the late E. C. P. Lascelles and the Property of Miss A. L. Lascelles, removed from Woolbeding house, Sussex, was sold, Sotheby's, London, Decemeber 11, 1970, lot 56.