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Lot 166

A French late 19th century Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted kingwood, tulipwood, satiné and marquetry bureau-plat by Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand, Paris

9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £11,250 inc. premium

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A French late 19th century Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted kingwood, tulipwood, satiné and marquetry bureau-plat by Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand, Paris

the serpentine top inset with a brown-leather writing surface within a gilt stepped surround with a shell-cast mount to each angle, above three frieze drawers inlaid with scrolling foliage, the back with similar decorated simulated drawers, the sides with pierced scrolling mounts, on cabriole legs, each headed by a scrolling foliate mount on acanthus-cast sabots, the carcass stamped twice to the underside and four times under the top G. Durand, 150cm wide, 77cm deep, 76cm high (59in wide, 30in deep, 29 1/2in high).

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Provenance:
This bureau-plat sold these rooms, 10th July 2007, lot 71 (£12,350).

Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand was born in Paris in 1839 and established the Maison Durand firm in 1870. His work shop was located at 12, rue de la Crisaie and later at 23, rue Beautreillis. Durand specialised in making 18th century style furniture of the highest quality and received a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle in 1889. In 1890 Durand's son Frédéric-Louis joined the firm, which changed its name to Durand et Fils and later changed location to rue Saint-Antoine at the old Hôtel de Sully. Upon the death of his father in c.1920 Frédéric-Louis took over the running of the firm.

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