French 19th century Louis XVI st. crouch mahogany and ormolu desk
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An important and extremely elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. crouch mahogany and ormolu desk. The desk is raised on eight square tapered legs each with ormolu top caps,sabots and original casters. At each side are two drawer, 'sans... — Read More
An important and extremely elegant French 19th century Louis XVI st. crouch mahogany and ormolu desk. The desk is raised on eight square tapered legs each with ormolu top caps,sabots and original casters. At each side are two drawer, 'sans traverse', displaying the warm and fine crouch mahogany grain continuing from one drawer to the other. Each drawer retains the original ormolu keyhole escutcheon pulls and has a dart shaped ormolu border and ormolu rosettes above. At the straight apron is a central drawer decorated with a sensational and high quality satin and burnished finished pierced scrolled ormolu mount above a beaded trim. At each side panel are handsome repeat butterfly designed mahogany panels displaying the warm grain and framed within an ormolu band and rosettes. At the right side is an additional pull out writing surface with two ormolu pulls. Above, framed in an ormolu gallery is the gilt tooled forest green fitted leather writing surface. The back is identically decorated with no drawers. All original gilt. — Read Less
- Item # 6640
H: 30.75 in L: 71 in D: 35.5 in
H: 78 cm L: 180 cm D: 90 cm
- France
- 19th Century
- Mahogany, Ormolu
- Louis XVI st. Read More
(Louis XVI st.) -
Also known as Louis Seize, Louis XVI's style is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration, and art created during Louis XVI’s 19-year reign in France, just before the French Revolution. Thought to be a reaction and juxtaposition to the prior more elaborate styles, Louis XVI style developed at the end of the Baroque Period and continued until the birth of French Neoclassicism. King Louis XVI showed little enthusiasm for the old world styles of the Baroque Period and he sought out a create a new “beau ideal” that focused on the purity and grandeur of Ancient Romans and Greeks. Inspired by Ancient Roman architecture and art, distinct features of the Louis XVI style are linear lines, small repeated motifs, floral medallions hanging from ribbons, acanthus leaves, urns, dolphins, ram, and lion heads, and griffins. Greco-Roman elements, often used in earlier and later French styles, were also quick common and included fluted and twisted columns, Caryathids, and corbels.
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