In Restoration: Boulle Brown Tortoiseshell Support Cabinet Signed Befort Ep. Napoleon III Napoleon 3

ATTENTION: Furniture currently being restored, will be available for the beginning of September fully restored. The price includes catering of course. Open for booking now. DESCRIPTION: superb piece of furniture in brass boulle marquetry and brown tortoiseshell. Emblematic model of the BEFORT house, bears two stamps on the back and the top "BEFORT JEUNE". With a remarkable quality of execution, this very architectural piece of furniture, very close to the Louis XIV style, is the work of Mathieu Befort (1816-c.1880), known as Befort Jeune. Cabinetmaker-marquetor established rue Neuve-Saint-Gilles in Paris between 1844 and 1880, he specialized in the manufacture of furniture in marquetry "Boule". This prestigious cabinetmaker has a particular style that makes it easy to identify his furniture. This piece of furniture opens with two doors on the front, executed in ebony veneer. Decorated with “Boule” marquetry, made of brass on a brown tortoiseshell background, with foliage, scrollwork and interlacing motifs. As usual with BEFORT, the marquetry is organized around the bronzes that it highlights. Superb ornamentation in gilded bronze, with character motifs, Socrates and Aspasia, in the theme of knowledge, multiple embedded ingot molds also typical of this cabinetmaker, spandrels, masks on the sides. The top is covered with a black marble from Syria. The interior is composed of two mahogany shelves inlaid on the edge. PERIOD / Napoleon III between 1860 and 1865 DIMENSIONS / Height 1m12 x W 1m25 x D 43 GENERAL CONDITION / restored by our workshop AVAILABILITY / immediate PRICE / 9.990€