Support Cabinet He Pretot Late Louis Philippe-napoleon III Period In Marquetry Dite Boulle

Very nice piece of furniture at support height attributable to Hippolyte-Edmé PRETOT by its structure, its bronzes and its marquetry. Cabinet with a door opening on the right. Marquetry in red tortoiseshell, brass, pewter, blue, green and yellow tinted horns, on a blackened pear tree background. Door flanked by caryatids looking at each other, opening onto an Interior veneered by Goncalo Alves. With double brass fillet on the edge of the shelf. Belt adorned with a frieze of acanthus leaves Blue Turquin Capella marble top: bluish gray rock from Carrara. Do you know? Hippolyte-Edmé PRETOT (1812-1855), born in Paris, practiced at 16 rue de l'Abbayie in 1836, 11, bis, rue Saint Germain des Près, in 1841, and from 1846 at 3 and 5, rue du Harlay . He specializes in tortoiseshell, brass, pewter and tinted horn marquetry furniture. He participated in the National Exhibition of 1849 and the London Exhibition in 1852, where he obtained a medal.