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French Antique Furniture
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Item No. 981
Fine, French, Louis XVI period, demi-lune console table
In solid, carved giltwood, having four, tapered, fluted legs joined by a stretcher centered with floral urn, the apron elegantly carved with bows and garlands, having a Carrera marble top. From Paris circa 1780.
45¼" wide by 33" high by 19" deep
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Item No. 958
Very fine, French, Louis XV period console
In solid, carved giltwood with original Brèche violet marble top; bottom stretcher having having four legs centered by a vigorously carved floral bouquet. Circa 1750.
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Item No. 947
Fine, French, Louis XVI style bed
Queen size, in solid mahogany with mahogany parquetry veneer and gilt bronze mounts. Circa 1880.
Provenance: From the Vanderbilt country estate.
63" wide by 80" long
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Item No. 946
Pair of fine, French, Louis XV-XVI Transition period console tables
In solid carved giltwood, each having an upper cartouche pierced with roses and lower cartouche centered with corbeille a fleurs (basket of flowers), the whole vigorously carved in guilloche (repeating, interlocking circles) motif, having volutes (scrolls) and acanthus leaves. With Breche marble tops in beige with rose veining. Circa 1765.
34½" high by 27½" wide by 17" deep
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Item No. 942
Very fine Louis XV gilt bronze mounted kingwood bureau plat and cartonnier
The cartonnier with circular white enameled dial signed "Masson a Paris", with roman hour markers and arabic minutes, above a case surmounted by a gilt-bronze monkey and enclosing six pigeon-holes, four containing tooled red morocco leather removable drawers, raised on scroll feet, the underside bearing the stamped initials "L V E " with an iron cross between the L and the V; the bureau plat with gilt-tooled red leather insert with a gilt bronze banded edge and scallop shells at corners, above five drawers, raised on cabriole legs mounted with chutes and terminating in sabots.
Mid-18th century, the bureau plat attributed to Pierre Migeon II, the cartonnier dial signed masson.
Bureau plat: 29" high by 88" wide by 44¾" deep Clock: 37" high
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