AFTER THE MODEL BY CHARLES CRESSENT, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Name: A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND LEMONWOOD BUREAU PLAT
Brand: AFTER THE MODEL BY CHARLES CRESSENT, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Price: 12000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 15,000

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GBP 15,000 - GBP 25,000

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND LEMONWOOD BUREAU PLAT

AFTER THE MODEL BY CHARLES CRESSENT, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Price Realised GBP 15,000

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

Price Realised GBP 15,000

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

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The serpetine shaped recntagular top inset with a later dark-brown leather writing surface, each angle with a scrolling shell mount clasp, above three frieze drawers, the back with simulated drawers, the sides centred by female masks, on cabriole legs headed by têtes des guerriers antiques and terminating in acanthus-cast sabots

31³⁄₄ in. (80.5 cm.) high; 73¹⁄₄ in. (186 cm.) wide; 37¹⁄₄ in. (94.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This palatial bureau plat is after the celebrated model by Charles Cressent of which the most famous example is in the Salon Doré at the Elysée Palace in Paris - where it is used by successive Presidents of France. Another with was sold from the in 1749 and again in the second sale in 1757, lot 116, entering the collection of the duc de Richelieu before selling lastly, in 1788, to Lord Willoughby in London and passing by descent to Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, where it remains. A third example formally belonging to the Princess Trivulzio and later to Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild and is today in the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.

Documented and admired, the model was revived in the second half of the 19th century by the foremost of the day, including Alfred Beurdeley and Henry Dasson, who made faithful replicas of the utmost quality like the present example. A desk of this model by Dasson sold Christie’s, London, 6 June 2017, lot 278 (£30,000) and another by Beurdeley sold Christie’s, Paris, 17 April 2012, lot 423 (94,600 €).

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