Live Auction 2473500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A LOUIS XVI AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY WRITING TABLE
Lot 185 The Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection

A LOUIS XVI AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY WRITING TABLE

BY PIERRE-HENRI MEWESEN, CIRCA 1780, THE MARBLE TOP AND GALLERY PROBABLY LATER

Closed20 October 2011

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A LOUIS XVI AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY WRITING TABLE
BY PIERRE-HENRI MEWESEN, CIRCA 1780, THE MARBLE TOP AND GALLERY PROBABLY LATER
With the shaped marble and galleried top above a conforming case, the sliding top opening to a fitted frieze drawer with a later leather-lined writing slide and later silvered ink, sand and quill pots, above two further drawers, stamped MEWESEN and JME to left side of drawer, inlaid to reverse
30 in. (76 cm.) high, 18¾ in. (47.5 cm.) wide, 13¾ in. (33.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Pierre-Henri Mewesen, maître in 1766.

Another richly inlaid and mounted table-à-ecrire attributed to Mewesen, with the same unusual shaped top, was sold Christie's, London, 4 December 2008, lot 125 (£37,250).