Lot 460
FRENCH TRANSITIONAL STYLE KINGWOOD PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE COMMODE, BY JOSEPH ROLL
19TH CENTURY
Auction: Lots 336 - 597 | 05 September at 10am
£693
Description
the shaped mottled grey marble top with a moulded edge above a fall front drawer fitted with pigeon holes and a red leather writing surface, above two further long drawers, with gilt metal mounts and raised on cabriole legs, maker's stamp 'ROLL/ Fg. St. Antoine No. 42/ Ft. de Meubles/ A PARIS'
Dimensions
131cm wide, 93cm high, 58cm deep
Footnote
Note: Joseph Roll, ebeniste, worked from Rue Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris from 1844 until the 1870s. He worked in the 18th century style and included Napoleon III amongst his customers.