Live Auction 5303Christie's Style & Spirit
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE A VANTAUX
Lot 35 THE ROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE A VANTAUX

BY ESCALIER DE CRISTAL, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed16 September 2014

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GBP 3,750

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE A VANTAUX
BY ESCALIER DE CRISTAL, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With Breche d'Alep marble top above doors enclosing two amaranth-faced oak shelves, the backboards stamped ESCALIER DE CRISTAL/ PARIS
39 ½ in. (100 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

Acquired by the vendor's father in 1972 from the antique department of Maple and Co. in Tottenham Court Road for £1045.

Specialist note

An almost identical commode stamped by the celebrated 19th-century Paris firm Escalier de Cristal is shown in Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.191.