BY GHISLAIN CHARVET, 20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY RENE DUBOIS

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE
BY GHISLAIN CHARVET, 20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY RENE DUBOIS
With inset brown leather writing surface above a 'Greek-key' decorated frieze with two drawers, on square tapering legs terminating in ormolu spiral sabots
29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 44 ½ in. (113 cm.) wide; 22 ¼ in. (55.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Property of the late Walter Lees, Esq. Christie's, London, 9 December 2010, lot 303 (with lot 156), where acquired.

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Lot Essay

This table à écrire is after the late Louis XV ormolu-mounted amaranth and bois satine bureau plat by René Dubois, circa 1763-1765, formerly in the Collection of Sir Charles Mills, Bt., (1792-1872), and by descent to Charles 4th Lord Hillingdon, which was acquired by Walter Lees in 1972. The René Dubois stamped bureau plat sold Christie's, London, 9 December 2004, lot 40. The pronounced marquetry displaying a variation on a Greek-key frieze, is an early example of a more moderately scaled piece of furniture in the so-called gout-grec style, the early phase of French neo-classicism.

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