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Honoré Dufin: Renaissance-style desk

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antiquity description

Beautiful double-sided carved and molded walnut pedestal desk.

It opens with nine drawers on the front, two doors and three drawers on the back.

Top with molded surround, belt with modillions, oves and feathered circles.

Boxes with fleur-de-lys, trefoils, tables, lion's heads and laurel-ringed columns.

Sides with panels molded with feathered ovals.

Low cornices with corbin beaks, inverted caves and staves, loaf feet.

High-quality walnut and workmanship.

Signed Dufin.

Around 1880.

Height 77 cm, length 149 cm, depth 89 cm.

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Honoré Dufin has been a cabinetmaker in Lyon since 1876, first at 8 rue Saint-Dominique, then at 4 rue des Célestins from 1880 to 1884, and finally at 49 rue de la République in 1892.
He was awarded a Silver Medal at the 1872 Lyon Universal Exhibition, followed by a Bronze Medal at the 1878 Paris Universal Exhibition.
He supplied three plates for the "Traité théorique et pratique de l'ébénisterie d'après Roubo.from the 1884 edition: pl. 55 Renaissance Buffet, pl. 97 Henri IV Credenza and pl. 98 Petit Meuble Buffet (François Ier).
Dufin had acquired an outstanding reputation in the manufacture of stylish furniture.
Among other things, he placed great importance on the care given to both the structure of the furniture and its decorative finish.
Walnut was one of his favorite woods, enabling him to build a sturdy piece of furniture, with fine carving and beautiful color.
Passionate about statuary art, Honoré Dufin's will in 1892 provided for the creation of a prize, to be awarded annually to the most deserving student in the Sculpture section of the Ecole des Beaux- Arts de Lyon.
The Fabius Frères Collection owned two pieces of furniture by Dufin: a middle table and a double cabinet, both in carved walnut (Sotheby's).