Stamped Walter – Beautiful Chest Of Drawers In Marquetry Of Flowered And Leafy Stems – 18th Century

From the old Marcel Dassault collection (1892 – 1986), beautiful curved chest of drawers in amaranth veneer wood opening with two drawers with recessed crossbars.
The facade and sides are inlaid with large decorations of flowering and foliage stems in friezing satin backgrounds surrounded by amaranth, hornbeam, pear and rosewood, with pinched rib uprights framing and rests on faceted feet.
Rich ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronzes: keyholes, handles, falls and embedded sabots.
Ardennes breccia marble top molded with a corbin beak.
Stamped WALTER and JME jurande hallmark (on the level of the right rear pillar).
Paris, Louis XV Period.
Provenance: Former Marcel Dassault collection (1892-1986).
Dimensions: 89 x 132 x 62 cm.

Pierre Walter,
Cabinetmaker, probably mastered before 1738. He worked as a free worker on the Grande Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine towards the middle of the reign of Louis XV.
Married to the daughter of the cabinetmaker CAREL, he took over his workshop after the latter's death.
In 1755, with Jean Baptiste Hédouin, he took over the goods belonging to the estate of his colleague François Vandercruse, known as Lacroix.
On the same date and until 1760, he supplied the cabinetmaker merchant Migeon with game tables of various kinds in satin wood and amaranth.