DRESSOIR

DRESSOIR
in carved walnut. Upper body opening to
two doors and two drawers in belt, lower body
hollowed out with a small cabinet opening
to one door. Panels of the leaves decorated with
allegorical characters, presumably
Fire, Air and Water.
Upper body: uprights with fluted columns
, carved frieze with cherubs' heads
and pines| side panels with interlacing
and palmettes. Architectural lower part
with semicircular arch and four columns
fluted on the front| base with
mouldings in doucine with palmette decoration.
Loire Valley, end of the 16th century

Height: 154 cm - Width: 103 cm
- Depth: 48 cm
(some restorations including redone drawers, vermilions on the back)

PROVENANCE
Former Comte Clemansin collection
from Maine (Sale Cannes, Me Guérin-Long, 17-18 and 19 March 1927, lot 280)