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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BOIS SATINE BUREAU PLAT
Lot 148

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BOIS SATINE BUREAU PLAT

BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, AFTER THE MODEL BY NICOLAS PIERRE SEVERIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Fermé6 March 2014

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GBP 18,750

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND BOIS SATINE BUREAU PLAT
BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, AFTER THE MODEL BY NICOLAS PIERRE SEVERIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The waved rectangular red-leather inset top within an ormolu surround above three frieze drawers, and three simulated drawers to the reverse, the sides centred by scrolling foliate clasps, on cabriole legs headed by rocaille shells terminating in foliate sabots, signed to the lockplate 'PAUL SORMANI/ 10 r. Charlot. Paris'
29 ½ in. (75 cm.) high; 55 in. (140 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

Note du spécialiste

This bureau is an interpretation of the celebrated example by Nicolas Pierre Séverin, known as the bureau de l'abbé Terray which is now preserved in the musée du Louvre (inv. OA7805). The model was revived from the mid-19th century by the premier Parisian ébénistes and is recorded by Alfred Beurdeley and Henry Dasson. An example by Beurdeley sold Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 2010, lot 128 ($92,500). Later in the century the model was also made by Gervaise Durand, Antoine Krieger and, as here, Paul Sormani.

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