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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND GILTWOOD FRAME
Lot 78

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND GILTWOOD FRAME

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE RETOUR D'EGYPTE TASTE

Closed8 February 2024

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND GILTWOOD FRAME
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE RETOUR D'EGYPTE TASTE
The frame enclosing the lithographic frontispiece "Facsimile of Coloured Monuments of Egypt" after Charles -Joseph Panckoucke by Louis-Jean Allais, possibly originally a mirror-frame
38 ½ x 32 in. (98 x 81.5 cm.)

Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Paris; sold Artcurial, Paris, 20 June 2006, lot 2.

Specialist note


Denise Ledoux-Lebard (1913-2014) was a noted scholar of French decorative arts, whose particular focus was the 19th century cabinetmakers of Paris.