Bureau Plat Stamp Topino, Epoque Eighteenth Century

Exceptional and Rare Louis XVI Flat Desk, Stamped C.TOPINO on the Two Traverses, From the Eighteenth Century. It is in Satin Mahogany and Satin Mahogany Veneer. It opens on the front with Three Drawers with its original Locks and 2 Keys. It rests on 4 Feet Sheaths topped with Grooves and fitted with Clogs closed on its Bronze Casters, for easier movement. Old restoration of use, a graft of 2 cm to a back foot. Its Tray is covered with a Red Leather gilded with Small Irons, surrounded by a Gilt Bronze Ingot Mold. Our desk measures 130 cm in length, 66.5 cm in width and 76 cm in height. It is in very good condition . Let's not forget that he is a few centuries old. His Furniture is kept at the Château De Versailles, in the Collections of the Château De Champs-Sur-Marne, and the Museum of Ceramics in Rouen keeps a Console dated from the 1780s. All the Refinement of this Cabinetmaker and his Mastery of Marquetry contribute to His light and refined Works, for an increasingly demanding Clientele. He had a short and prolific career. He did not access La Maîtrise until 1773, but he had already been working for a few years, in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine with his father, then from April 1770 in his own shop, and until La Faillite au time of the French Revolution. He collaborated with Grand Merchants, notably Jean-Baptiste TUART, Nicolas Héricourt, Pierre V MIGEON and Léonard BOUDIN. He continued his production with more rectilinear silhouettes, and always with success, as evidenced by our Office here.