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A fine Louis XV style walnut, kingwood and marquetry inlaid…
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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
10-Nov-2008
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Description:
A fine Louis XV style walnut, kingwood and marquetry inlaid bonheur de jour, in the manner of Giroux, French, third quarter of the 19th century, the upper section with a pierced gilt metal three-quarter gallery and mounted with a pair of putti above a pair of cupboard doors with oval marquetry panels depicting urns overflowing with flowers above a pair of short drawers with caryatids to either side, the lower section with a serpentine shaped edge above a drawer with secret release and enclosing a tooled leather writing surface above conforming marquetry panels and raised on slender tapering cabriole legs with caryatids and terminating in foliate sabots, 79 cm wide, 52 cm deep, 132 cm high.Reference: For an identical piece see Christopher Payne, '19th century European Furniture', p. 139, plate 347.
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Category:
Unclassified