Null Cartel d'Alcôve and its console table, with Boulle marquetry decoration in …
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Cartel d'Alcôve and its console table, with Boulle marquetry decoration in the first part, made of engraved brass on red tortoiseshell backgrounds. It is adorned with a rich ormolu trim featuring foliage scrolls, gadroons, horns of plenty and female masks. It is crowned by a putti and features an eagle with outstretched wings embracing a snake. The bronze dial features twelve white enamel cartouches. The dial and mechanism are signed Charles de Beauvillain in Paris. Cité Maître, July 14, 1733. Paris. Regency period. H_84 cm W_31.5 cm D_16.5 cm Restoration. Bibliography : Les Ouvriers du Temps. Jean-Dominique Augarde. Antiquorum Editions - 1996

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Cartel d'Alcôve and its console table, with Boulle marquetry decoration in the first part, made of engraved brass on red tortoiseshell backgrounds. It is adorned with a rich ormolu trim featuring foliage scrolls, gadroons, horns of plenty and female masks. It is crowned by a putti and features an eagle with outstretched wings embracing a snake. The bronze dial features twelve white enamel cartouches. The dial and mechanism are signed Charles de Beauvillain in Paris. Cité Maître, July 14, 1733. Paris. Regency period. H_84 cm W_31.5 cm D_16.5 cm Restoration. Bibliography : Les Ouvriers du Temps. Jean-Dominique Augarde. Antiquorum Editions - 1996

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