A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY JEWEL CABINET, BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1760

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY JEWEL CABINET
BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1760
The pierced gallery surrounding a landscape above a frieze drawer and a tambour inlaid with a village landscape and sliding to reveal a fitted interior, the stand with conforming inlay and fitted with a book rest over a frieze drawer and a side drawer, cabriole legs, stamped P. ROUSSEL JME to the underside, previously with additional mounts, one drawer with French & Company stencil 11626, the top probably originally hinged and with consequential restorations
42 in. (106.5 cm.) high, 18 ¾ in. (48 cm.) wide, 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Symons Gallery, New York
Acquired by French and Company, New York 16 November 1922.
Acquired by Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, May 9, 1925.
Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
Parke Bernet, New York, 10 December 1966, lot 137.