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Musée du Grand Siècle, Saint-Cloud, France
ALEXANDRE-JEAN OPPENORDT (V.1636-1715), MASTER BEFORE 1668, ORDINARY CABINET-MAKER TO THE KING IN 1684

Paris, Louis XIV period, circa 1700.

Oak and walnut frame; Brazilian violet wood; first-part marquetry in brass on a red tortoiseshell and brown tortoishell backgound, gilt bronze.

H. 12.5 cm. (5 in.); W. 37 cm. (14 ½ in.); D. 28 cm. (11 in.).

PROVENANCE: private collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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