A LOUIS XVI GREEN AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED VERNIS MARTIN SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, stamped by Léonard Boudin and attributed to André Louis Gilbert, the vernis attributed to Martin frères, mounted with repoussé gilt-metal, the later moulded canted rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a frieze drawer with beaded flutes and an entrelac collar, the hinged rectangular fall-front decorated with courtly chinoiserie ladies and children playing within a parapetted garden with trees and water beyond, within a cut-cornered rectangular frame with interlaced patera angles, enclosing a fitted tulipwood-lined interior with brown leather-lined writing-surface, six amaranth-banded drawers and four pigeon-holes, the lower section similarly decorated with a chinoiserie temple and Chinese pheasant in an extensive landscape, the canted panelled angles hung with ribbon-tied fruiting swags and headed by acanthus scrolls, the spreading sides with further landscape panels with temples and trees, the whole enriched with gilt lines, on panelled canted feet, stamped L. BOUDIN twice and JME once, with printed label FILAINE ET COMPAGN.. MARCHANDS, Rue S . MARTIN , dated 23 Mai 1776, restorations 32in. (82cm.) wde; 56½in. (143.5cm.) high; 15½in. (39.5cm.) deep
A LOUIS XVI GREEN AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED VERNIS MARTIN SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, stamped by Léonard Boudin and attributed to André Louis Gilbert, the vernis attributed to Martin frères, mounted with repoussé gilt-metal, the later moulded canted rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a frieze drawer with beaded flutes and an entrelac collar, the hinged rectangular fall-front decorated with courtly chinoiserie ladies and children playing within a parapetted garden with trees and water beyond, within a cut-cornered rectangular frame with interlaced patera angles, enclosing a fitted tulipwood-lined interior with brown leather-lined writing-surface, six amaranth-banded drawers and four pigeon-holes, the lower section similarly decorated with a chinoiserie temple and Chinese pheasant in an extensive landscape, the canted panelled angles hung with ribbon-tied fruiting swags and headed by acanthus scrolls, the spreading sides with further landscape panels with temples and trees, the whole enriched with gilt lines, on panelled canted feet, stamped L. BOUDIN twice and JME once, with printed label FILAINE ET COMPAGN.. MARCHANDS, Rue S . MARTIN , dated 23 Mai 1776, restorations 32in. (82cm.) wde; 56½in. (143.5cm.) high; 15½in. (39.5cm.) deep
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