Lot 199
FINE LOUIS XVI STYLE KINGWOOD, AMARANTH, AND ACAJOU GILT BRONZE MOUNTED PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER
Auction: 26 March 2013 at 11:00 GMT
Description
the three quarter gallery top over a cylinder front centred by an oval marquetry musical trophy, opening to an arrangement of drawers and pigeon holes over a sliding green leather writing surface above and arched frieze with three drawers, the centre drawer mounted with a gilt bronze relief plaque depicting musical putti; the sides with further gilt bronze relief plaques depicting putti emblematic of the arts, raised on square tapered legs ending in foliate cast gilt bronze sabots; the whole in trellis pattern parquetry and outlined in gilt bronze
Dimensions
114cm wide, 105cm high, 65cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Property from a Glasgow collection
Note: The present lot is after a model by the royal ebeniste Jean-Henri Riesener, now in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, delivered on December 21, 1784 to Marie Antoinette's apartment in the Palais de Tuileries