A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONIZED AND BOULLE BRASS AND PEWTER-INLAID AMARANTH MEUBLES-D'APPUI AFTER A MODEL BY PIERRE-ETIENNE LEVASSEUR OR LEVASSEUR THE YOUNGER, 20TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONIZED AND BOULLE BRASS AND PEWTER-INLAID AMARANTH MEUBLES-D'APPUI
AFTER A MODEL BY PIERRE-ETIENNE LEVASSEUR OR LEVASSEUR THE YOUNGER, 20TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
Each with molded veined liver and white marble top, the frieze with a continuing border of ormolu sunflowers flanked and separated by acanthus leaves, the front with three drawers veneered with première-partie Boulle marquetry incorporating foliate scrolls in pewter, on an amaranth ground outlined with pewter banding and mounted with ormolu handles incorporating keyhole escutcheons, cast with masks of Apollo flanked by ebonized columns with ormolu capitals; the ebonized sides fitted with ormolu putti, the rectangular base with gadrooned ormolu border raised on spirally-fluted feet headed by ormolu paterae
40 in. (102 cm.) high, 32 1/4 in. (82 cm.) wide, 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm.) deep

Provenance
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, New York, 21 November 1984, lot 207.
Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 23.