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Lot 124 Dα

A Parisian Régence chest of drawers

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 35.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 52.500 € (incl. premium)

A Parisian Régence chest of drawers

Palisander on softwood and oak, hewn marble top, ormolu mountings. Chest of drawers with three serpentine faces and two drawers on flaring supports of square section with scroll sabots. Decorated with symmetrical veneer and bronze mountings, handles, lock plates, and mouldings. The angles accentuated by female relief mascarons. H 80, W 132.5, D 65 cm.
Paris, circa 1710 – 1730, attributed to Noël Gerard.

Literature

A bureau plat with identical mountings on the angles published in Langer/Ottomeyer, Die Möbel der Municher Residenz I, Munich/New York 1995, p. 49 ff., no. 4. This piece is attributed to François Lieutaud. Cf. also a similar bureau plat, also with identical female mascarons and sabots, attributed to Noël Gérard in Pradère, Die Kunst des französischen Möbels, Munich 1990, p. 113, illus. 81 and 82.