A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE, BY PIERRE GARNIER, MID-18TH CENTURY

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE
BY PIERRE GARNIER, MID-18TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular top with strapwork cartouches and sliding to reveal a tooled leather writing surface and out-folding compartments within a serpentine frame fitted with a small drawer, cabriole legs,stamped to underside indistinctly P.G...I...R and with chalk inscription MARTIN
28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) wide, 18 ¾ in. (47.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Collection of Jacques Seligmann.
Mrs. Benjamin Stern; Anderson Art Galleries, New York, 4 April 1934, lot 903.
Alastair Bradley Martin; Christie's, New York, 21-22 October 2010, lot 25.