A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-JACQUES PAFRAT, CIRCA 1790

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED ACAJOU MOUCHETE MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-JACQUES PAFRAT, CIRCA 1790
The marble top with three-quarter gallery above three drawers and a rising cylinder front concealing a fitted interior with drawers and pigeon-holes above an arrangement of four frieze drawers, the right-hand drawer faced as two and with internal lidded compartment, on fluted cylindrical tapering legs terminating in sabots
47 1/2 in. (121 cm.) high; 63 3/4 in. (162 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep
Literature
E. Lambert, ‘English Manners, Robin and Rupert Hambro’s Country House in the Heart of London’, Architectural Digest, March 1995, pp. 124-5.
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Lot Essay


Jean-Jacques Pafrat, maître in 1785.

Pafrat's oeuvre championed neoclassical form and severity, always employing mahogany veneer punctuated by clean-lined ormolu mounts paired with fluted column supports, embracing the prevalent architectural style. A commode by Pafrat, seized from the duc d'Orléans at the château du Rainey during the Revolution and now at the Musée de Versailles, is illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ébènistes Français, 1989, p. 423. A closely-related bureau à cylindre stamped by J.L. Cosson and also made from distinctive acajou moucheté (plum-pudding mahogany) was sold anonymously at Christian de Quay, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 March 1994, lot 102 (163,000 FF).

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