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Awe-inspiring French Louis XV Rococo style gilt-ormolu-mounted veneer inlaid Coiffeuse after the model by Maxime Secretant, late 19th-early 20th century, The splendacious kidney-shaped quarter-veneered dressing table is surmounted by an adjustable fine chiseled gilt ormolu oval mirror supported by rococo style scrolled-acanthus and intricate cast uprights, resting on a half circular beveled wooden support above a marble top. The frieze fronted by a central drawer ornamented with an ormolu running hammered background Vitruvian scrolls design with reeded ormolu ring handles, flanked to each side by a short drawer, the convex sides and the short drawers are framed with ormolu trim. The coiffeuse stands on tapering cabriole legs headed by an intricate ormolu acanthus foliate clasps running to scroll-acanthus sabots
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Awe-inspiring French Louis XV Rococo style gilt-ormolu-mounted veneer inlaid Coiffeuse after the model by Maxime Secretant, late 19th-early 20th century,

The splendacious kidney-shaped quarter-veneered dressing table is surmounted by an adjustable fine chiseled gilt ormolu oval mirror supported by rococo style scrolled-acanthus and intricate cast uprights, resting on a half circular beveled wooden support above a marble top.

The frieze fronted by a central drawer ornamented with an ormolu running hammered background Vitruvian scrolls design with reeded ormolu ring handles, flanked to each side by a short drawer. The convex sides and the short drawers are framed with ormolu trim.

The coiffeuse stands on tapering cabriole legs headed by an intricate ormolu acanthus foliate clasps running to scroll-acanthus sabots.

Ref#FC-1528

105 x 145 x 50 cm

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Maxime Secretant:

Maxime Secretant established a workshop producing fine quality furniture in the eighteenth century style at 74, rue Amelot, Paris. For some time he worked in association with his half-brother Leon Duval, who had been an apprentice with Gervais Durand, the well known ébéniste. D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris 1984; S.575.

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