A Beautiful Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XVI Style Coramandel Lacquer Cabinet By Maison Forest
Item # 8599
$52,500
By Maison Forest
A fine marble top above a single bronze mounted drawer, the middle door decorated as a landscape scene with people at leisure, opening for storage, over two acanthus capped hairy lion paw feet, the two flanking panels with flower pots and floral designs, the matching sides are doors which open to six pullout drawers, all standing on bronze spiral feet.
Stamped Ameublements Forest Paris 31 rue Cambacérès, 17 rue Boétie on the door.
Forest opened his shop in Paris in 1883. The furniture produced by the Maison Forest stands out for its lavishly applied good quality gilt-bronze mounts and often strongly contrasting colors of marble tops.
Details:
Height – 52 inches / 132cm
Width – 57 inches / 145cm
Depth – 17 inches / 43cm
Maker – Maison Forest
