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A Louis XVI style ormolu mounted kingwood bureau plat, by…
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Melbourne
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6-Nov-2016
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A Louis XVI style ormolu mounted kingwood bureau plat, by Edwards and Roberts, London, late 19th century, the leather top above frieze drawers raised on tapering legs with rosette terminals, stamped 'Edwards & Roberts/Wardours/London, 73 cm high, 133 cm wide, 75 cm deep, The firm of Edwards & Roberts was founded in 1845, and had premises at 21 Wardour Street, London. By 1892 they occupied more than a dozen buildings in Wardour Street, where they continued to trade until the end of the century. Known and feted as one of the leading London cabinet makers and retailers, they worked in a variety of styles, both modern and revivalist especially furniture in the Neo Classical Adam revival, as well as the French furniture of the ancien regime, and exhibiting a range of ability in their products, from ‘very good to astonishingly good’. Their marquetry work, as in this example, is of a quality that equals the creations of the French ebenistes of the eighteenth century. The business involved making and retailing their own output, as well as adapting and restoring both English & Continental antique furniture
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Furniture: Desks - Secretaires and Bureaux