Description
Chest of drawers from the Louis XVI period in solid lemon tree and mahogany wood.
It opens with three rows of drawers on the front with entries and bronze rings, white veined marble top.
Fluted uprights ending in tapered legs.
Second half of the XNUMXth century.
Port work, Nantes.
Please note:
stained marble top, posterior handles.
H 86 x W 117 x D 57 cm
We call port furniture furniture made of exotic wood – mainly mahogany – made in certain French port cities from the XNUMXth to the beginning of the XNUMXth century in the ports of France where exotic woods or precious woods from the colonies arrived.
The three main production centers were Saint-Malo, Nantes and Bordeaux. Port furniture has a special feature: it is made of solid exotic wood, right down to the frame, sometimes to the cleats.
Finally, one of the main characteristics of Nantes furniture is to combine lemon tree, mahogany and amaranth.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
MAILLET Françoise, Le Mobilier Nantais, inL'Estampille l'Objet d'Art, April 1985.
MAILLET Françoise, The Nantais decor of the shipowner in the 1984th century and its wooden furniture from the isles, Nantes, Imprimeries Simonneau, XNUMX.
