A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMERICAN WALNUT CREDENCE

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMERICAN WALNUT CREDENCE
DESIGNED BY EDOUARD LIEVRE, ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SORMANI, CIRCA 1870
In the neo-Renaissance style, the spreading pediment with Vitruvian scroll-fitted frieze, centered by an urn and flanked by cartouches, the quarter panelled doors with pierced rinceaux reserves and centred by portrait relief roundels of King Charles VII of France 'The Victorious' (1403-1461) and Agnès Sorel (1422-1450), each opening to an adjustable shelf, flanking a statuette of 'The Belvedere Hermes’, the base fronted by five open arches centred by a pair of columns with Corinthian capitals, above a spreading platform, on bun feet
71 1⁄4 in. (181 cm.) high; 59 in. (150 cm.) wide; 23 1⁄2 in. (57 cm.) deep

Provenance
Succession de Feu Edouard Lièvre, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21-24 March 1887, no. 16 (3,500 francs).
The Collection of M. Leprince.
Private Collection.