A LOUIS XIII WALNUT AND NOIR MAQUINA MARBLE-INSET ARMOIRE A DEUX CORPS, PARIS, CIRCA 1610-20

A LOUIS XIII WALNUT AND NOIR MAQUINA MARBLE-INSET ARMOIRE A DEUX CORPS
PARIS, CIRCA 1610-20
The broken arch pediment above cherubim flanked by marble panels and a pair of doors densely carved with military trophies and opening to a gilt-metal mounted fabric-lined interior, the lower case with an eagle flanked by fruit garlands and marble panels above a pair of doors with further military trophies flanked by panels of winged female sphinxes, marble and swans, later molded base and bun feet, rebacked, with traces of a gilt-decorated scheme, red-painted museum accession number 75.18.35 to reverse
74 ¼ in. (188.5 cm.) high, 34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) wide, 15 ½ in. ( 40.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Madame de Polès; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22-24 June 1927, lot 242.
With French and Company, New York.
E. John Magnin, by whom acquired from the above on 5 May 1928.
Gifted by the above to the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco in 1935.
Deaccessioned by the museum in 1999, when acquired by a Philadelphia private collector, by whom sold; Christie's, New York, 7 June 2011, lot 269.