Edwards & Roberts
A Louis XVI Style Pietre Dure Writing Table
£42,000
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Pietre Dure Mounted Ebonised Writing Table, Retailed by Edwards & Roberts. This fine ebonised writing...
Dimensions
Height: 150 cm (60 in)Width: 121 cm (48 in)
Depth: 60 cm (24 in)
Description
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Pietre Dure Mounted Ebonised Writing Table,
Retailed by Edwards & Roberts.
This fine ebonised writing table has a three-quarter galleried superstructure with cavetto moulding above three cupboards, each with a panel door inset with fine pietre dure panels of vases issuing flowers. The lower part of the table has a pull out writing slide with a dark blue leather writing surface, above a long drawer centred by a tablet mounted with a foliate pietre dure panel. The table is raised on tapering square section legs united by an ‘x’-frame stretcher centred by a gilt-bronze vase. The beautiful Florentine pietre dure panels are inlaid in high relief with shaded agates marble, and semi-precious stones.
The combination of fine gilt-bronze mounts on an ebonised ground enriched with fine pietre dure inlay indicates the work of one of the best Parisian ébénistes of the period.
Date
Circa 1870
Origin
France
Medium
Pietre Dure
Signature
The drawer edge stamped 'Edwards & Roberts'.