A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT, of Régence style, the rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled blue leather top, the angles with foliate-cast clasps, the frieze centred by a drawer with grotesque and acanthus-cast central escutcheon, flanked to each side by a small drawer with foliate-cast handle and with gadrooned and acanthus-cast scrolled mount to each side, the reverse with matching mounts, the sides each with a female mask, on four square-tapering shaped legs, each headed by a caryatid with scrolled acanthus-cast mounts and terminating in hairy-claw sabots with acanthus, late 19th Century | Christie's

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT, of Régence style, the rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled blue leather top, the angles with foliate-cast clasps, the frieze centred by a drawer with grotesque and acanthus-cast central escutcheon, flanked to each side by a small drawer with foliate-cast handle and with gadrooned and acanthus-cast scrolled mount to each side, the reverse with matching mounts, the sides each with a female mask, on four square-tapering shaped legs, each headed by a caryatid with scrolled acanthus-cast mounts and terminating in hairy-claw sabots with acanthus, late 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND KINGWOOD BUREAU PLAT, of Régence style, the rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled blue leather top, the angles with foliate-cast clasps, the frieze centred by a drawer with grotesque and acanthus-cast central escutcheon, flanked to each side by a small drawer with foliate-cast handle and with gadrooned and acanthus-cast scrolled mount to each side, the reverse with matching mounts, the sides each with a female mask, on four square-tapering shaped legs, each headed by a caryatid with scrolled acanthus-cast mounts and terminating in hairy-claw sabots with acanthus, late 19th Century
79½in. (210cm.) wide; 30¾in. (78cm.) high; 39¼in. (100cm.) deep

拍品专文

This Bureau Plat is designed from a model made by André-Charles Boulle during the 1720s. The Duc de Bourbon commissioned a Bureau Plat of the same type, which is now at Versailles.