Lot 206: A gilt–bronze-mounted brass inlaid ebony and ebonised cabinet stamped BellangéLouis Philippe, circa 1840

with a rectangular veined liver grey and white marble top with rounded corners, above a frieze drawer enclosing a drop-front leather- lined writing surface and four drawers one fitted for writing implements, with a pierced baluster gallery, the angles flanked by female terms in drapery, with a pair of cupboard doors, enclosing three rosewood and maple drawers, with a further drawer in the apron, on flattened disc feet, the whole applied with gilt bronze banding and acanthus and inlaid with brass panelling, strapwork and foliage

95cm. high, 141cm. wide, 59cm. deep; 3ft. 1½in., 4ft. 7½in., 1ft. 11¼in.

Comparative Literature:
Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebénistes du XIXe siècle 1795-1889, Paris, 1984, for a related cabinet stamped by Bellangé, circa 1842, now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
Alexandre-Louis Bellangé (1799-1863).