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A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT SALOME CANEAttributed to Christian Ferdinand Morawe, executed by Theodor Fahrner, Pforzheim, 1905
A GERMAN JUGENDSTIL 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT CANEPossibly designed by Hermann Gradl the Elder, circa 1905

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AN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN SECESSIONIST DIAMOND AND LAPIS LAZULI INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER AND SILVER-GILT OVERLAY ROCK CRYSTAL QUARTZ CANEDesigned by Josef Hoffmann for Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna, circa 1907
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A DANISH SKØNVIRKE PERIDOT INSET 826 STANDARD SILVER OCEAN FLOOR CANEAttributed to Christian Fjerdingstad, Skagen, circa 1920
A FRENCH ART NOUVEAU GREEN GLASS INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER BEETLE CANE Designed and executed by Henri Vever, Paris, circa 1890-1900
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A SWEDISH DIAMOND INSET 800 STANDARD SILVER NIELLO SNAKE CANEDesigned and executed by Wilhelm James Andreevitch Bolin, Stockholm, 1919
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A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 1
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 2
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 3
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 4
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 5
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 6
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 7
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 8
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 9
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 10
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 11
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 12
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 13
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 14
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 15
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 16
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 17
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 18
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 19
A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles CressentE. Kahn et Cielate 19th century image 20
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A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles Cressent
E. Kahn et Cie
late 19th century

Fine European Furniture and Decorative Arts
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A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry "Treaty of Versailles" bureau plat after a model by Charles Cressent
E. Kahn et Cie
late 19th century

The gilt banded inset leather top above three frieze drawers, the central drawer with a shield form escutcheon issuing foliate vines flanked by scrolled acanthus mounts, each corner mounted with espagnolettes with elaborate coiffure and feathered headdress supported on acanthus scrolls, each side centered by a gilt mask of a Beauty, her hair entwined by floral and fruited vines, the cabriole legs ending in gilt lion's paw sabots, paper label underneath (now detached) printed E. KAHN ET CIE, backs of two chutes stamped E. KAHN.
height 31in (78cm); width 67in 170cm); depth 36in (92cm)

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Provenance:
Butterfield & Butterfield, February 12, 1973, sale 2797, lot 615

Very similar examples of the Treaty of Versaille bureau plat sold;
Christie's London, 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art, March 20, 2007 Lot 58
Christie's New York, 500 Years of Decorative Arts, Oct 17, 2012, Lot 56
Christie's New York, The Opulent Eye, March 14, 2013, Lot 107

Literature
See Les Meubles d'Art du Mobilier National, Vol 1, E. Williamson
Christopher Payne, Francois Linke 1855-1946, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture p.128, 2003

E. Kahn, Ltd, a noted fine furniture manufacturer and retailer was located at 6 St. Andrews Street, Holborn, and opened a New York showroom in 1884. The firm were known for the finest reproductions of formal Louis XV furniture. As noted in Christopher Payne's book, page 128, Linke allowed this firm to publish an illustration of his Grand Bureau in their catalog.

On June 28, 1919 the peace treaty formally ending World War I was signed by Clemenceau, Lloyd-George, and Wilson for the Allies, Drs. Muller and Bell for Germany, in the Hall of Mirrors on the bureau plat Charles Cressent (1685-1756) made for Louis XV.

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