Lot 426: A RÉGENCE STYLE GILT-BRONZE AND BRASS MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TRELLIS PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRÉ CHARLES BOULLE PARIS, CIRCA 1900

A RÉGENCE STYLE GILT-BRONZE AND BRASS MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TRELLIS PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRÉ CHARLES BOULLE PARIS, CIRCA 1900 fitted with three frieze drawers opposed by three dummy drawers. height 31 1/4 in.; width 6 ft. 6 1/4 in.; depth 38 in. 79.5 cm; 199 cm; 96.5 cm

This bureau plat with its recessed central drawer and female mask corner mounts is based upon a series of celebrated bureaux plats with female masks produced around 1715-20 in the workshop of the most celebrated French ébéniste of the Louis XIV period, André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732). Boulle usually worked in tortoiseshell and brass marquetry, however, 18th century examples are also recorded in amaranth and ebony. Boulle also produced models with satyr masks chutes. Similar desks are in the Wallace Collection in London, the Getty Museum in California, the Frick Collection in New York, and the celebrated model comissioned for the Duc de Bourbon is now in the permanent collection at the Chateau de Versailles.