Curved chest of drawers in satinwood, violet... - Lot 230 - Coutau-Bégarie

Lot 230
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Result : 57 960EUR
Curved chest of drawers in satinwood, violet... - Lot 230 - Coutau-Bégarie
Curved chest of drawers in satinwood, violet wood, rosewood, green stained wood and light wood veneer. Cambered legs with astragals and gilded bronze sabots, set in the continuation of the rounded uprights with three simulated flutes, topped by generous gilded bronze falls with ram's head motifs. It opens in front with two rows of drawers without crosspieces, and two flaps set in corners. The lower drawer is decorated with a bronze applique motif of antique vases on mounds. Inlaid belt with a frieze of interlacing leaves centred on quatrefoils. Profiled white marble top, moulded with a cavet. H. 89.5 cm - W. 113 cm - D. 54 cm (Small accidents, some missing veneer) Around 1770. Model of Charles TOPINO (circa 1742-1803), master in 1773. Commonly called Topino chest of drawers, this piece of furniture is quite typical of this master cabinetmaker. Although not stamped, it has all the characteristics of a marked style of the time. The neoclassicism is present in the architecture of the piece of furniture as well as in its ornaments. Topino made several chests of drawers with similar lines but he took particular care to distinguish them from each other by their ornaments: He made small variations, as for their dimensions, choice of wood in the marquetry, the inlaid decoration of their belt (friezes of round or oblong interlacing) or their bronze ornaments (bronze falls with ram heads like our piece of furniture presented here, or with piastres) A similar model with a variation in the bronzes is kept in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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