A Restauration Ormolu-Mounted Marble Top, Inlaid Bibliotheque Basse, E. Levasseur

By Pierre-Etienne Levasseur or his son Pierre-Francois Henri Levasseur, circa 1820, stamped "E. Levasseur" to left and right top case under marble, ebony case, oak secondary, stepped noire marble top above a fern and rosette cast frieze above a central hinged door with a central pietra dura panel featuring bird on branch, center door surround and flanking doors with tortoiseshell and brass boulle, paneled sides feature central cast Hercules mask.

40 x 57 x 19 in.

Private Collection, NC

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Full width break and repair to marble with metal supports, now stable; five inch loose marble section to back right edge; right quadrant with two inch small sliver of missing marble to top, envelope present containing small marble pieces; scratching and wear to marble top; left door panel boule bending; right and left side panels with shrinkage cracks.


$80,000 - 120,000