Walnut DRESSER with upper part opening with two... Lot 49

Walnut DRESSER with upper part opening with two doors and a drawer in belt, the lower part recessed. Decoration of the leaves with female masks in high relief set on a cut-out leather cartouche with eagle heads and rosettes; uprights decorated with terms with bare bust, two masculine at the corners looking at the central feminine term; frieze and drawer front decorated with interlacing and rosettes; lower body with columns in front in the form of a gadrooned and fluted baluster, back with two panels carved with large cut-out leather cartouches; sides with protruding panels and pines. Touraine or Haut-Poitou, circa 1580 Height: 153 cm - Length: 103 cm - Depth: 42,2 cm (some restorations and vermoulures, drawer handle changed) Provenance: Former Martin Le Roy collection, Paris. Bibliography: G. Migeon, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, fascicule III, Paris, 1907, Fig. plate XXVIII (fig.).