attributed to Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand A French gilt-bronze mounted kingwood, satiné cube parquetry and bois de bout floral marquetry side cabinet Paris, circa 1880

surmounted by a brèche d'alep marble top above a pair of doors opening to three walnut-veneered shelves.

A closely related cabinet stamped four time G. Durand sold in these rooms, October 24, 2007, loy 443, which sold for $10,000. Interrestingly, this form of Louis XV/transition cabinets were repeated throughout the 18th century but with the evident less elaborate belle époque marquetry and bronze mounts. See: a vitrine cabinet of this form stamped B.DURAND standing for Bon Durand, P. kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII eme siècle, p. 334, pl. b