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MARTIN-ELOY LIGNEREUX (1752-1809)

Pair of cabinets

1803

RCIN 31308

This pair of cabinets was commissioned in Paris for the Prince of Wales (later George IV) by his friend Sir Harry Featherstonhaugh in 1802, during a break in hostilities between England and France. Lignereux's French Empire design incorporates seventeenth-century Florentine plaques with fashionable Egyptian gilt bronze heads. Acquired by George IV

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