Paar exzeptionelle Bibliotheken Lot n° 19

113 x 163,5 x 46 cm. Both pieces of furniture stamped "E. Levasseur": twice on one, four times on the other chest of drawers. Paris, c. 1815. A plinth zone divided by cube capitals decorated with ormolu ornaments and ebonized oak feet in relief, above which rises the three-door corpus. This has finely chiselled ormolumascarons on the sides, a central ebonised middle door with a high-oval, finely worked bronze relief and two side doors with horizontal divisions behind. The high oval medallions with depiction of Helen of Troy with Priam as well as the abduction of Europa. Cornice decorated with antique ornaments worked out in plastic and merging into the slightly risalit-like protruding green-white veined marble top. The furniture designed by Pierre Etienne Levasseur or his son Pierre Francois Henri Levasseur (called the younger). Signs of age and use. (12901431) (13) A pair of exceptional libraries 113 x 163.5 x 46 cm. Both pieces of furniture stamped "E. Levasseur": twice on one commode and four times on the other commode. Paris, ca. 1815. The pieces of furniture designed by Pierre Etienne Levasseur or his son Pierre Francois Henri Levasseur (also known as the Younger). With signs of ageing and wear.