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Secretaire "À Abattant" Signed Hyppolyte-Edme Pretot, Paris, 19th Century
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Secretaire "à abattant". Fine woods, marquetry, interior with drawers in rosewood and textile, gilded bronze and enameled porcelain; on marble. Signed HYPPOLYTE-EDME PRETOT (Paris, 1812-1855). Paris, France, 19th century.
Secretaire with top cover in marble veined marble and rectangular plant, with a base of curved lows and rounded corners highlighted with marquetry of diamonds and applications in gold metal of classicist memory. The sides are decorated with diamond plumes in the wood in the central area, separated by two golden bronze moldings that extend along the three fronts; in the upper part, the same compositional scheme is repeated. The front faces the decoration: a
composition framed by plumes of flowers and vegetal elements in a delicate marquetry for each of the drawers that, in the door, is highlighted by a bronze molding and accompanied by a porcelain enamelled plate. This presents two cupids in a celestial background, in addition to a frame in this same metal.
Opening this door, a small desk with a fabric-covered lid and four drawers flanking a central space, located under another rectangular space, is discovered. The corners of the furniture, in addition, count on classicistic dolphins and grotesques of children with the lower half of the body transformed into vegetal elements and volutes.
The furniture has a sign affiliated with Hippolyte-Edme Pretot, a Parisian cabinetmaker who settled on Rue de l'Abbaye in 1836, moved to Rue Saint-Germain in 1841 and, since 1846, to Rue de Harlay. He showed some of his best works at the Exposition Nationale de France in 1849 and at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 he obtained a Medal. It is possible to compare the present example with the lines of a cabinet Napoleon III in "Pietra Dura", ebonized wood and gilded bronze that has been dated towards 1850 and is conserved in a private collection, similarities that it is possible to appreciate comparing also the elements in bronze of both furniture. It is possible to contemplate some works of the master, or attributed to the same, in the Dayton Art Institute (United States), in the Musée des Arts Dècoratifs of
Paris, in the Embassy of Luxembourg in The Hague, in the collection of National Patrimony of Spain, etc."
Size: 80 x 44 x1 09 cms.
- Creator:Hippolyte-Edme Pretot (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 42.92 in (109 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80 cm)Depth: 17.33 in (44 cm)
- Style:Neoclassical (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:19th Century
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Madrid, ES
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