LOT DETAILS

Materials:

stained lindenwood, rouge de campan ruban 'marble'

Measurements:

44.09 in. (112.00 cm.) (height) by 55.12 in. (140.00 cm.) (width) by 20.87 in. (53.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

Denise Ledoux-Lebard, 'Le Mobilier Francais du XIX Siecle, Dictionnaire des Ebénistes et des Menuisiers' Paris, 1984, pp. 594-598. Camille Mestdagh, L'Ameublement d'art Français 1850-1900, Paris, 2000, p. 71. Werner Adriaenssens et al, Roberto Polo: The Eye, London, 2011, pp. 158-161, illustrated. Christopher Payne, European Furniture of the 19th Century, Woodbridge, 2012, p. 45 for information on Tahan. Victor Charles, ' 1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art', Belgium, 2014, pp. 297. Claudio Paolini ed., Il bello "Ritrovato", Gusto, ambienti, mobili dell'Ottocento, Novare, De Agostini, Istituto Geografico, 1990, p. 309 for the related Alphonse Giroux secrétaire at Compiègne .