A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BUREAU PLAT BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR CIRCA 1770 The rectangular gilt-tooled green leather inset top with a chanelled ormolu edge above three frieze drawers between rosette blocks, with conformingly decorated sides and reverse, the patera-headed angles hung with laurel baguettes, the slides to each end retaining their original gilt-embossed green leather raised on square tapering legs with gilt sabots, the frame surrounding the drawers with cut tenons indicating the re-use of existing 18th Century timber on the carcass, stamped twice E. LEVASSEUR 28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 64 in. (163 cm.) wide, 31 ¾ in. (81 cm.) deep Provenance With Fabre, Paris. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2001, lot 350.
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY BUREAU PLAT BY ETIENNE LEVASSEUR CIRCA 1770 The rectangular gilt-tooled green leather inset top with a chanelled ormolu edge above three frieze drawers between rosette blocks, with conformingly decorated sides and reverse, the patera-headed angles hung with laurel baguettes, the slides to each end retaining their original gilt-embossed green leather raised on square tapering legs with gilt sabots, the frame surrounding the drawers with cut tenons indicating the re-use of existing 18th Century timber on the carcass, stamped twice E. LEVASSEUR 28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 64 in. (163 cm.) wide, 31 ¾ in. (81 cm.) deep Provenance With Fabre, Paris. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2001, lot 350.
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