A Parisian Régence chest of drawers Palisander on softwood and oak, hewn marble top, ormolu mountings. Chest of drawers with three serpentine faces and two drawers on flaring supports of square section with scroll sabots. Decorated with symmetrical veneer and bronze mountings, handles, lock plates, and mouldings. The angles accentuated by female relief mascarons. This lot contains materials which require a CITES licence for export outside of the EU contract countries. We would like to inform you that such licenses are usually not granted. H 80, W 132.5, D 65 cm. Paris, circa 1710 – 1730, attributed to Noël Gerard. A bureau plat with identical mountings on the angles published in Langer/Ottomeyer, Die Möbel der Municher Residenz I, Munich/New York 1995, p. 49 ff., no. 4. This piece is attributed to François Lieutaud. Cf. also a similar bureau plat, also with identical female mascarons and sabots, attributed to Noël Gérard in Pradère, Die Kunst des französischen Möbels, Munich 1990, p. 113, illus. 81 and 82.