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A late Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted rosewood, amaranth, bois satiné meuble à hauteur d'appui, 18th century and later

Lot Closed

February 2, 02:15 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A late Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted rosewood, amaranth, bois satiné meuble à hauteur d'appui,

18th century and later


with a sepia painted marble top depicting an Antique scene, probably Romulus ordering the abduction of the Sabine Women, with a brèche d'Alep border, the right side with two short frieze drawers at the top and the left side with one long frieze drawer at the top, the front with two drawers, the top one with a green tooled leather writing surface with a raised compartment comprising four short drawers, with an inventory number in red ink 2824.R, on tapering legs terminating with sabots

86cm. high, 74cm. wide, 60.5cm. deep

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Private Collection, Paris;

Christie's Paris, Le Goût Français - Incluant la succession Elie et Inna Nahmias, 6 November 2004, 6 November 2014, lot 433;

From where acquired by the present owner.

Douglas Cooper, Great Private Collections, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1963, p. 172 (not illustrated);
Douglas Cooper, Les Grandes Collections Privées, Editions du Pont Royal, Paris, 1963, p. 172 (not illustrated);
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Gli Ebanisti del Luigi XVI, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, 1966, p. 79 (as attributed to Jean-François Leleu).