A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND END-CUT MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND END-CUT MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

The pierced three-quarter galleried canted rectangular superstructure with later grey-veined white marble top above a tambour-slide, enclosing a fitted interior with five pigeon-holes flanked by canted angles with ribbon-tied foliate sprays, the base section with three panelled drawers above a counterbalanced roll-top inlaid with a central oval posie of ribbon-tied flowers within an ormolu and crossbanded border and flanked to each side by foliate sprigs within Greek-key fret angles, enclosing a fitted interior with burgundy leather-lined writing-surface, six tulipwood drawers and two pigeon-holes, the beaded entrelac collar above two further drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central roundel mounted with a neo-classical urn and surmounted by a ribbon-tied foliate spray with Greek-key fret angles, the sides similarly inlaid, on foliate-trailed and flute-inlaid square tapering legs with later block feet and ball finials, restorations, the backboards partially replaced, the superstructure associated, originally with a marquetry top
32¼in. (82cm.) wide; 59in. (150cm.) high; 18½in. (47cm.) deep

拍品专文

With its distinctive pierced gallery and entrelac border and characteristic husk-trails and ribbon-tied foliate angles, this cylinder-bureau's mounts closely relate to those on a bureau in the Wallace Collection (F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogues: Furniture, London, 1956, F.324, pl. 90). This entrelac border also appeared on the Vernis Martin secrétaire à abattant stamped by the marchand-ébéniste Léonard Boudin and attributed to André-Louis Gilbert, which was sold by the Marquess of Cholmondeley in these Rooms, 'Works of Art from Houghton', 8 December 1994, lot 74. Contrastingly, the strong Neo-Classicism of the sans traverse urn-mount is of a similar vein to the oeuvre of Joseph Baumhauer, for instance on the pair of meuble à hauteur d'appui sold anonymously at Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 216