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18th Century Antique Furniture
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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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Item No. 718
French, Louis XVI period tric-trac table
In solid, carved mahogany with flame mahogany veneer, gilt bronze trim, and tapered, fluted legs. Backgammon surface in ebony with ivory inlay. Leather top reverses to reveal felt playing surface for cards. Circa 1780.
47" long by 27" deep by 28" high
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Item No. 925
Fine, Arlesian, Louis XV period vitrine
in solid, carved walnut having chapeau de gendarme cornice adorned with corbeille a fleurs (flower basket), the case with two conforming, arched doors elegantly carved with foliage and musical instruments; having four interior shelves and pierced, fretted keyplates; the whole terminating on acanthus leaf adorned escargot feet.
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Item No. 816
Catalan, Baroque period, marquetry-inlaid, slant-front bureau
In walnut veneer with boxwood inlay, monogram surmounted by a crown. Two small external drawers above three long drawers, with an additional six interior drawers behind fold-down writing compartment. First half of the 18th century.
49½" high by 46" wide by 23½" deep
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Item No. 905
Italian, Neoclassical, parcel gilt and painted settee
The rectangular slightly scrolled upholstered back with leaf carved rounded arms on tapering columnar supports over a leaf and arrow carved seat raised on square tapering fluted legs. Late 18th century
36" high (at back) by 77" wide by 23" deep
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