A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED AMARANTH COQUILLIERS ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE OR BOULLE FILS, CIRCA 1720-30 Each with shaped oval top lined with burgundy leather and with moulded edge mount above eighteen graduated drawers divided into six banks, the drawers mounted with channelled borders, cartouche-shaped escutcheons and fluted and foliate cast handles, on brass-fluted incurved cabriole legs with foliate-cast lion's-paw sabots, each with blue bordered paper label inscribed 'RD' in red ink, later oak supporting blocks/brackets to the underside, minor replacements to mounts 31 ¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high; 51 ¾ in. (131.5 cm.) and 51 ½ in. (131 cm.) wide; 27 ¼ in. (70.5 cm.) deep Provenance Supplied to Louis-Léon Pajot, second comte d'Ons-en-Bray for his cabinet at the château de Bercy, where recorded in 1754. The Wildenstein Collection, Christie's, London, 14 December 2005, lot 20, where acquired.
A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED AMARANTH COQUILLIERS ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE OR BOULLE FILS, CIRCA 1720-30 Each with shaped oval top lined with burgundy leather and with moulded edge mount above eighteen graduated drawers divided into six banks, the drawers mounted with channelled borders, cartouche-shaped escutcheons and fluted and foliate cast handles, on brass-fluted incurved cabriole legs with foliate-cast lion's-paw sabots, each with blue bordered paper label inscribed 'RD' in red ink, later oak supporting blocks/brackets to the underside, minor replacements to mounts 31 ¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high; 51 ¾ in. (131.5 cm.) and 51 ½ in. (131 cm.) wide; 27 ¼ in. (70.5 cm.) deep Provenance Supplied to Louis-Léon Pajot, second comte d'Ons-en-Bray for his cabinet at the château de Bercy, where recorded in 1754. The Wildenstein Collection, Christie's, London, 14 December 2005, lot 20, where acquired.
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