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AN IMPORTANT LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT BRASS, PEWTER AND TORTOISESHELL-MOUNTED 'BOULLE' AND EBONY MEUBLE A HAUTEUR D'APPUI
BY ALEXANDRE-LOUIS-BELLANGÉ, PARIS, 1840
AN IMPORTANT LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT BRASS, PEWTER AND TORTOISESHELL-MOUNTED 'BOULLE' AND EBONY MEUBLE A HAUTEUR D'APPUI BY ALEXANDRE-LOUIS-BELLANGÉ, PARIS, 1840 Of breakfront trapezoid form, the inset rubanné des Pyrénées marble top above an egg-and-dart, acanthus and guilloche frieze, over a panelled door profusely inlaid in contre partie with scrolling foliage and arabesques and centred by a finely-cast ribbon-tied oak-branch-wreathed cartouche raised with the initials FPO for Ferdinand-Philippe d'Orléans, the similarly-inlaid concaved and panelled sides centred by a grotesque mask and set to the corners with shell and foliate-cast clasps, the projecting front angles applied to the left with a bacchante and to the right with a satyr, each with scrolling vine and acanthus-cast terminal, the shaped apron with central vine mount, the projecting front block feet fronted by a lion mask issuing scrolling acanthus; the interior with three adjustable shelves, the cartouche-shaped brass lock-plate engraved Année 1840/Exécuté pour Monseigneur/Le Duc d'Orléans/PAR ALEXANDRE BELLANGE FILS/F td'Ebénisteries et Curiosités/33 Rue des Marais Faub. S tMartin/PARIS 54 in. (137 cm.) high; 61 3/8 in. (156 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep