Description & Technical information
with its coeval rectangular "cipollino" elaborated moulded marble top on blind frieze drawer above three long drawers on a base plinth.
The marble is signed in pencil ‘Jean Christophe Fischer Maitre’ and stamped in black with the Fontainebleau Royal Castle inventory number F 492.
Although archive research in Fontainebleau has not yet identified the exact inventory, the number F 492 has no doubt to be identified with one of the 19th century inventories of the Castle.
The locks probably by ‘Huret a Paris’.
Date: Paris 1827
Period: 1750-1850
Medium: Mahogany, Jaspers, Amaranth wood, Burr maple, Cipollino marble, silver
Signature: In pencil Jean Christophe Fischer Maitre stamped F 492
Dimensions: 95 x 135 x 60 cm (37³/₈ x 53¹/₈ x 23⁵/₈ inches)
Provenance: Royal castle of Fontainebleau
A private collection in Chelsea London
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