View full screen - View 1 of Lot 29. A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted ebony and brass in contrepartie marquetry bureau plat "à têtes de satyres", the model created by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1730-1760, some gilt-bronzes stamped with the crowned C.

A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted ebony and brass in contrepartie marquetry bureau plat "à têtes de satyres", the model created by André-Charles Boulle, circa 1730-1760, some gilt-bronzes stamped with the crowned C

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

opening with three drawers, the central drawer with a slight projection centered by a mask of Bacchus, the opposite side with dummy drawers, the slightly curved mounts adorned with satyr heads and fitted with foliate sabots, the sides centered with a mask of Bacchus, with a later black morocco leather top

 

Haut. 80 cm, larg. 190 cm, prof. 92 cm ; Height 31 ½ in, width 74 2/3 in, depth 36 ¼ in

 

Probably Sultan Abdülhamid II (1842–1918);

Sultan Selim Effendi Hamid Han Arabi (1909–1999), then by descent, private collection, southwest France;

Sale in Versailles, Perrin-Royère-Lajeunesse, 19 December 2010, lot 61