A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE CABINET-CARTONNIER
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE CABINET-CARTONNIER

OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 September 2011

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE CABINET-CARTONNIER
OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with three-quarter pierced gallery above a spreading pediment centred by a Bacchic mask, above six gilt-tooled tan leather-fronted drawers, centred by a scrolled acanthus-mounted long drawer above two cupboard doors, on four spirally-fluted toupie feet, the back twice spuriously stamped 'TILLIARD' and with paper inventory label for Tring Park, dated 1898 and inscribed 'Cartonnier Louis XVI'
49½ in. (126 cm.) high; 23¾ in. (60 cm.) wide; 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

Nathaniel Meyer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, during the late 19th century.