A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND 'BOULLE' EBONISED BUREAU PLAT
BY EUGÈNE- PAUL CAILLAUX, PARIS, CIRCA 1860
A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND 'BOULLE' EBONISED BUREAU PLAT BY EUGÈNE- PAUL CAILLAUX, PARIS, CIRCA 1860 The shaped top inlaid overall in première-partie with scrolling Berain arabesques and centred by an angel attended by two putti and amid two butterflies and flowers, within a serpentine border with ormolu caps, over three frieze drawers to one side and false drawers to the reverse each centred by Bacchic or Apollo masks, the sides similarly decorated, and centred by a mask, on four legs headed by busts and scrolling to paw sabots, stamped ' E. CAILLAUX, ' the underside with a torn paper label ' GARDE MEUBLE / EMBALLAGE & TRANSPORT / [D'OBJ]ETS D'ART / PUSEY... / BE... / C... ' 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high; 58 ½ in. (149 cm.) wide; 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) deep
A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND 'BOULLE' EBONISED BUREAU PLAT
BY EUGÈNE- PAUL CAILLAUX, PARIS, CIRCA 1860
A LOUIS PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS-INLAID TORTOISESHELL, IVORY, MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND 'BOULLE' EBONISED BUREAU PLAT BY EUGÈNE- PAUL CAILLAUX, PARIS, CIRCA 1860 The shaped top inlaid overall in première-partie with scrolling Berain arabesques and centred by an angel attended by two putti and amid two butterflies and flowers, within a serpentine border with ormolu caps, over three frieze drawers to one side and false drawers to the reverse each centred by Bacchic or Apollo masks, the sides similarly decorated, and centred by a mask, on four legs headed by busts and scrolling to paw sabots, stamped ' E. CAILLAUX, ' the underside with a torn paper label ' GARDE MEUBLE / EMBALLAGE & TRANSPORT / [D'OBJ]ETS D'ART / PUSEY... / BE... / C... ' 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high; 58 ½ in. (149 cm.) wide; 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) deep
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