Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics
A Louis XIV style gilt-bronze mounted, cut brass and tortoiseshell inlaid ebony and ebonised bureau mazarin, circa 1880
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May 23, 03:11 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Louis XIV style gilt-bronze mounted, cut brass and tortoiseshell inlaid ebony and ebonised bureau mazarin, circa 1880
the top depicting Jupiter seated holding a sceptre and carrying fire and flanked to the right by Venus and Cupid and to the left by Mercury, all amongst Berainesque grotesque motifs, stamped 'VF Paris' between crossed keys to the back of the lock
77cm. high, 153cm. wide, 82cm. deep
Acquired in Sydney, Australia, by John Reid;
Christie's, London, The John Reid Collection, 18th December 1998, lot 226.