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Auction archive: Lot number 206

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

Auction 08.07.1999
8 Jul 1999
Estimate
£300,000 - £500,000
ca. US$472,126 - US$786,877
Price realised:
£441,500
ca. US$694,812
Auction archive: Lot number 206

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

Auction 08.07.1999
8 Jul 1999
Estimate
£300,000 - £500,000
ca. US$472,126 - US$786,877
Price realised:
£441,500
ca. US$694,812
Beschreibung:

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE By Jean-Franois Leleu The rectangular broccatello di Spagna marble top with pierced three-quarter gallery above a frieze with scrolling fruiting laurel-band, above the roll-top with inset cube-parquetry panel centred by a flower-spray medallion and a green silk velvet-lined writing-slide enclosing four small drawers and three compartments, flanked by floral trails, above a central blue moir silk-lined drawer with a foliate spray and concealed drawer flanked by a pair of sans traverse cube parquetry drawers to each side, the sides conformingly inlaid and the reverse mahogany veneered, on four fluted turned tapering legs terminating in foliate bun feet, the left of the underside stamped 'I.F LELEU', the marble top with restored breaks, with paper label to the back inside the top left hand drawer inscribed 'stadler et bniste rue Roaille saint paulle', the reverse with inventory inscription 'AR570' 41 in. (106 cm.) high; 35 in. (91 cm.) wide; 19 in. (49.5 cm.) deep

Auction archive: Lot number 206
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE By Jean-Franois Leleu The rectangular broccatello di Spagna marble top with pierced three-quarter gallery above a frieze with scrolling fruiting laurel-band, above the roll-top with inset cube-parquetry panel centred by a flower-spray medallion and a green silk velvet-lined writing-slide enclosing four small drawers and three compartments, flanked by floral trails, above a central blue moir silk-lined drawer with a foliate spray and concealed drawer flanked by a pair of sans traverse cube parquetry drawers to each side, the sides conformingly inlaid and the reverse mahogany veneered, on four fluted turned tapering legs terminating in foliate bun feet, the left of the underside stamped 'I.F LELEU', the marble top with restored breaks, with paper label to the back inside the top left hand drawer inscribed 'stadler et bniste rue Roaille saint paulle', the reverse with inventory inscription 'AR570' 41 in. (106 cm.) high; 35 in. (91 cm.) wide; 19 in. (49.5 cm.) deep

Auction archive: Lot number 206
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jul 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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