A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER AND JAPANNED SIDE CABINETS (BAS D'ARMOIRE)

A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE EXPORT LACQUER AND JAPANNED SIDE CABINETS (BAS D'ARMOIRE)
EARLY 18TH CENTURY, ONE WITH ALTERATIONS
Each with a 19th-century grey and yellow breccia marble top above a pair of flush doors decorated with birds amongst flowering branches enclosing four adjustable shelves on a cut-away plinth base, one with fragmentary ink inscribed printed paper label 'EXPOSITION DE TOURS, 1881/E...VOI DE M LE MAIRE DE TOURS/... chemin de fer:../A M r. Luzarche, No. 5 Square de M.../Paris/Noture du Colis Meuble', both cabinets and marbles with Douanes stamps, the top and base to one cabinet replaced probably in the late 19th century, partially re-mounted
52 1⁄2 in. (133 cm.) high; 53 3⁄4 in. (137 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

Provenance
Marie Elisabeth Thalie Luzarche d’Azay, née Pradet (1807-1894), Hôtel Luzarche d’Azay, 5 Square Messine, Paris, 1881, (according to paper label).
Acquired from Etienne Levy, Paris, 1997.