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French Formal Antique Furniture
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Item No. 981
Fine, French, Louis XVI period, demi-lune console table
In solid, carved giltwood, having four, tapered, fluted legs joined by a stretcher centered with floral urn, the apron elegantly carved with bows and garlands, having a Carrera marble top. From Paris circa 1780.
45¼" wide by 33" high by 19" deep
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Item No. 947
Fine, French, Louis XVI style bed
Queen size, in solid mahogany with mahogany parquetry veneer and gilt bronze mounts. Circa 1880.
Provenance: From the Vanderbilt country estate.
63" wide by 80" long
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Item No. 942
Very fine Louis XV gilt bronze mounted kingwood bureau plat and cartonnier
The cartonnier with circular white enameled dial signed "Masson a Paris", with roman hour markers and arabic minutes, above a case surmounted by a gilt-bronze monkey and enclosing six pigeon-holes, four containing tooled red morocco leather removable drawers, raised on scroll feet, the underside bearing the stamped initials "L V E " with an iron cross between the L and the V; the bureau plat with gilt-tooled red leather insert with a gilt bronze banded edge and scallop shells at corners, above five drawers, raised on cabriole legs mounted with chutes and terminating in sabots.
Mid-18th century, the bureau plat attributed to Pierre Migeon II, the cartonnier dial signed masson.
Bureau plat: 29" high by 88" wide by 44¾" deep Clock: 37" high
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Item No. 718
French, Louis XVI period tric-trac table
In solid, carved mahogany with flame mahogany veneer, gilt bronze trim, and tapered, fluted legs. Backgammon surface in ebony with ivory inlay. Leather top reverses to reveal felt playing surface for cards. Circa 1780.
47" long by 27" deep by 28" high
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