Lot n° 33
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10000 - 15000
EUR
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: 14 000EUR
Mahogany and mahogany veneer chest of drawers; rectangular i - Lot 33
Mahogany and mahogany veneer chest of drawers; rectangular in shape, it opens with a wide drawer in the waist and three others with crosspieces; wide chamfered uprights with channels and half columns; tapered legs; beautiful ornamentation in chased and gilded bronze such as friezes of interlacing, entrances, vases loaded with flowers, asparagus...
Louis XVI period (reinforcements).
Carrara semi-statuary marble top.
H. 97 cm - W. 132 cm - D. 59 cm
Provenance :
Acquired in Paris in December 1977;
Collection of Monsieur and Madame A., in their Hôtel particulier near the Champs-Élysées;
By descent to the present owner.
Related work:
This chest of drawers is in suite with a secrétaire à abattant, formerly in the Georges Heine collection and attributed to Jean Henry Riesener, kept at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris (Inv.26799) and illustrated in C-P. Wiegandt, Le mobilier français Transition Louis XVI, Éditions Massin, Paris, 1995, p.84.
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