Object Description
A Fine Side Cabinet in the Louis XVI manner
By G. Durand of Paris
Of elegant demilune form and employing exquisite flamed Cuban mahogany, the whole dressed with restrained neoclassical mounts in the manner of Jean-Henri Riesener; rising from tapering legs mounted with ormolu sabots. The convex side doors displaying boxwood stringing and incorporating an adjustable shelved interior and flanking five graduated central drawers with laurel loop handles, ingeniously locked by the pivoting mahogany moulding running down the sides of the drawers. Surmounted with a veined Carrara marble top delineated by a three-quarter gallery. Bearing the maker’s stamp twice “G. Durand.”
French, circa 1875