Details
In the late Louis XV style, each inlaid overall with trellis and cornflower motif and with checquered borders, the circular top with guilloche pierced gallery above a frieze drawer, the cabriole legs headed by shell and foliate mounts and joined by a conformingly decorated undertier terminating in foliate sabots, each stamped once 'G. DURAND'
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 1814 in. (46 cm.) across
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 25 October, 2005, lot 506.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
J. Nicolay, L'art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle, vol. 1, Paris, 1976, p. 259, fig. D.
P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier français du XVIIIe, Paris, 1989, pp. 752-753.
C. Roinet, Roger Vandercruse dit La Croix, Paris, 2000, p. 95.
FURTHER DETAILS
* Please note that this lot is available to view at Christie's warehouse, Park Royal. Please contact Anna Schiff (aschiff@christies.com) for assistance.
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Specialising in the manufacture of 18th Century furniture models, Gervais-Maximilien-Eugène Durand is recorded as having worked at both 12 rue de la Cerisaie and 62 rue Saint-Antoine during the last quarter of the 19th Century. He was awarded the silver medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. The atelier altered its name to Durand et fils when his son joined the firm in 1890.

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