Secretary with doucine built in oak and softwood inlaid with - Lot 4

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Secretary with doucine built in oak and softwood inlaid with - Lot 4
Secretary with doucine built in oak and softwood inlaid with rosewood with frieze decoration, amaranth veneer and composite nets with Greek decoration. It opens in front of a drawer in the upper part, a flap and two leaves. The flap is covered with red leather on the reverse side and reveals five compartments and six drawers. The uprights, cut down for the front ones, rest on small arched feet. Gilded bronze trim including entries of locks and sabots. Grey marble top Sainte - Anne molded with a fillet. Stamped twice by P.F. GUIGNARD (on the edge of the drawer) Pierre - François GUIGNARD (1740-1794) Cited master on January 21, 1767. Paris. Louis XV period. Dimensions : 133 x 90 x 31 cm. Restorations of uses, Lifts to the veneers. This cabinetmaker left good furniture as well Louis XV as Transition or Louis XVI. His masterpiece is a Louis XVI chest of drawers decorated with Chinese lacquer and gilt bronze which was presented by the Ministry of Finance at the exhibition of the Great Cabinetmakers in 1955 at the Museum of Decorative Arts. Another Louis XVI period half-moon chest of drawers in ebony and Coromandel lacquer is kept in the collections of the Louvre Museum (donated by Grog Carven)
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