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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU-A-CAISSONS
Lot 673

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU-A-CAISSONS

MID-20TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF GUILLAUME BENNEMAN

Closed23 March 2017

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU-A-CAISSONS
MID-20TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF GUILLAUME BENNEMAN
The gilt-tooled red leather top above six drawers and a frieze drawer, decorated with foliate scrolls and ribbon-tied foliate trails above mille-raies panels, applied with garland-hung lion mask handles, the back with false frieze drawers, on square tapering legs
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 71 ¾ in. (182 cm.) wide; 34 ½ in. (87.5 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale; Artime Encheres, Paris, 30 November 2014, lot 316.

Specialist note

This bureau derives from Guillaume Benneman's celebrated model executed in 1787 for the library of Louis XVI at Compiègne, although the present example is fitted with caissons. The popular model was frequently copied and reinterpreted by many eminent ébénistes of the 19th century, including Emmanuel Alfred Beurdeley and François Linke. The original now resides in the Louvre.