A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, AMARANTH-BANDED AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
Lot 614

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, AMARANTH-BANDED AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1780

Closed9 February 2012

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GBP 25,000

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, AMARANTH-BANDED AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1780
The top with pierced three-quarter gallery above a roll-top inlaid to the centre with a lozenge-pattern containing flowerheads, enclosing a leather-lined slide, three pigeon-holes and four drawers, with further slides to either end, above a kneehole with a drawer flanked by two drawers to the right and a deep drawer to the left with fitted compartment and further secret compartments, on square tapering legs, partially re-mounted
44 in. (112 cm.) high; 63¾ in. (162 cm.) wide; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) deep

Octave Mirbeau, sold Hôtel Drouot, Salle 6, 19 November 1918, lot 127 (5750 Francs) to
Monsieur Durand.
Vincente Coll Antiques, Barcelona, from whom acquired in 1998.

Specialist note

Pierre Roussel, maître in 1745.