C Dresser for Colebrookdale Aesthetic Movement Cast Iron Garden Canopy Seat Ends
£4,000
An Art Nouveau carved walnut, inlaid and glazed salon cabinet, with stylised floral carved details to the crown, with a central glazed cupboard with bevelled glass doors flanked by three shelves to each side, with a lower central carved support fixed below a white marble area to a further carved frieze and Art Nouveau inlaid peacock style scroll details on Maple veneers behind.
It features a waist shape back with carved leaf detail terminating in carved blooming florets, a lower display area with an almost conforming Maple inlaid back, and standing on carved cabriole legs. Modelled on an almost identical suite he exhibited at the 1901 Paris Exposition.
References:See Duncan, Alastair Louis Majorelle: Master of Art Nouveau Design; London 1991, p. 111 for a contemporary photograph of a similar bedroom suite included in the Majorelle display at the Exposition Universale, Paris, 1900.
(Please note some of the images are a little dusty).
Width: 72 in (182.88 cm)
Depth: 29 in (73.66 cm)
