A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted plum pudding mahogany cartonnier last quarter 19th century

the top with a pierced gallery above a pediment centred by a Bacchic mask, above six tooled leather drawers, above a long drawer above two cupboard doors, on toupie feet, the back indistinctly twice stamped 'TILLIARD', with paper inventory label for Tring Park, dated 1898 and inscribed ‘Cartonnier Louis XVI'.

Commissioned by Nathaniel Meyer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, during the later 19th century,
Christie's, London, 22 September 2011, lot 223.

In overall good condition. There is some foxing to the leather door fronts and minor tarnishing to the brasses. The drawer fronts are less orange and have a richer patina than is shown in the printed catalogue. This piece is ready to place.
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Tring Park is an estate in Hertfordshire given by Charles II in 1680 to Sir Henry Guy, later Secretary of the Treasury, who built a new house designed by Sir Christopher Wren. The house changed hands several times up to the 19^th century when it was sold in 1872 to Baron Lionel de Rothschild who gifted it to his son Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild. The later Lord Rothschild made substantial alterations to the house, which remained with the Rothschild family until 1945.