François Lebesgue, Paris, around 1760
Lavishly veneered in rosewood and mahogany as well as numerous other precious woods, some of which are coloured, fire-shaded and engraved, with splendid fire-gilt bronze applications, decorative bronze edges, and a profiled original brèche d'alep marble top as a cover.
Signed with a marking stamp under the plate. The ornamentation on the front “sans traverse” and the sides of the furniture, artfully inlaid into the fourfold mirrored veneer back, meets the highest standards of a courtly salon piece. The veneer is dominated by large flowering branches with imaginative framing of shells and imbricated ribbons. The fittings with moving curved rocailles complement the inlaid motifs of the representative chest of drawers. From a French aristocratic estate.
Height 86 cm, width 95 cm, depth 53 cm.
Salverte, “Les Ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle”, Paris 1934, p. 180.










