A Louis XV Style Parquetry Bibliothèque
FRANCE, Circa 1880
REF No. B68202
dimensions
Height :243 cm | 107⁵/₈ in
Width :180 cm | 82⁷/₈ in
Depth :52 cm | 32¹/₂ in
Width :180 cm | 82⁷/₈ in
Depth :52 cm | 32¹/₂ in
description
A Very Good Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Parquetry Inlaid Bibliothèque.
This fine Bibliothèque is of superb quality with wonderful gilt-bronze mounts and is of excellent proportions. The bibliothèque has a moulded fleur de pècher marble top, above an arched parquetry frieze centred by a finely cast gilt-bronze Bacchic mask above a bevelled glass door opening to seven adjustable shelves.
The central door is flanked by a pair of glazed grillé doors; each door inset to the lower section with panels of parquetry inlay embellished with a Bacchic mask to the centre and acanthus and bell-husk mounts to the sides.
The angles of the bibliothèque are mounted with very fine gilt-bronze figural mounts with feathered headresses, in the manner of Charles Cressent, and the whole is raised on splayed legs with lion paw and acanthus feet.
This fine Bibliothèque is of superb quality with wonderful gilt-bronze mounts and is of excellent proportions. The bibliothèque has a moulded fleur de pècher marble top, above an arched parquetry frieze centred by a finely cast gilt-bronze Bacchic mask above a bevelled glass door opening to seven adjustable shelves.
The central door is flanked by a pair of glazed grillé doors; each door inset to the lower section with panels of parquetry inlay embellished with a Bacchic mask to the centre and acanthus and bell-husk mounts to the sides.
The angles of the bibliothèque are mounted with very fine gilt-bronze figural mounts with feathered headresses, in the manner of Charles Cressent, and the whole is raised on splayed legs with lion paw and acanthus feet.
