A fine quality late 19th Century French side cabinet with a marble top, a fall front sectretaire, having wonderful hand painted Sevres style porcelain plaques depicting baskets of flowers with ribbons, when opened reveals compartments within and an inset leather writing tablet. a single Oak lined frieze drawer and two hinged compartments either side, three marble top open shelves on either side, raised on square tapering legs with ormolu mounts, a shelf beneath and terminating on spade feet.
After Henry Dasson
Henry Dasson (1825–1896) was a renowned nineteenth century Parisian maker of gilt-bronze mounted furniture. Unlike other cabinetmakers of the time Dasson began his career as a bronze sculptor, and consequently one characteristic of his work is the quality of his bronze and more precisely of the chiselling. His Paris workshop was situated at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, where he specialised in the production of Louis XIV, XV and XVI style furniture using the finest gilt-bronze mounts.
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