FLAT BUREAU with side pulls in mahogany, opening at the wais - Lot 131

Lot n° 131
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FLAT BUREAU with side pulls in mahogany, opening at the wais - Lot 131
FLAT BUREAU with side pulls in mahogany, opening at the waist with three drawers, framed in gilded bronzes, it stands on four sheathed legs terminating in gilded bronze sabots and features a black morocco top gilded with small irons (stains). Stamped G.DURAND (Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand,born 1839) Louis XVI style, circa 1880 H: 75 W: 130 D: 67 cm (traces of oxidation and insolation) Note: Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand (b. 1839) was a Parisian cabinetmaker specializing in 18th-century imitations. Himself heir to one of the greatest cabinetmaking dynasties of the 19th century, his son joined his workshop, renamed Durand et fils. Both designer and executor of his own work, he "followed in the footsteps of masters such as Beurdeley and Dasson" (according to A. Picard, D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les ébénistes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1965, p.182). He won a silver medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
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