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GROHE FRERES: A sideboard made of solid wood and veneer, pro…
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GROHE FRERES: A sideboard made of solid wood and veneer, pro…
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
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Description
GROHE FRERES: A sideboard made of solid wood and veneer, probably pear wood, opening via two glazed side panels, each revealing two shelves, three drawers running along the base and a central panel adorned with a large gilded bronze medallion featuring a sculpted design at the bottom-relief of cherubs playing with doves in a rocky landscape, surmounted by a ‘Marie-Antoinette’ bow and framed by a garland of flowers, the side panels featuring fluted columns topped with Corinthian capitals, richly decorated with gilded and chiselled bronze motifs such as garlands of flowers, bows, small flowers, borders, rings, clogs, godron and ray-of-heart friezes and beaded friezes, spinning-top legs, stamped on the back ‘Grohé Frères ébénistes à Paris’, topped with white marble, 19th century, Dim. With marble top: (slight chips, a few areas missing, scratches and chips to the marble).
* A similar piece by Grohé Frères was exhibited at the Great Exhibition in London, as seen in an engraving from 1863.
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