124 Emmanuel Alfred BEURDELEY (known as Alfred II) Important chest of drawers with doors in mahogany and flamed mahogany veneer with a slight central projection, opening with three leaves and three drawers hidden in the belt. The uprights in fluted column rest on tapered legs. In the center, a gilded bronze ornament representing a young faun with a flowery basket, set halfway up the body in scrolling foliage. Ornamentation in finely chiseled and gilded bronze such as frieze of ovals and spearheads, foliage, frames with pearls and rosettes, moldings, rings, sabots and tigettes. White marble top with reversed cavet. Stamped A. BEURDELEY A PARIS. Louis XVI style, late 19th century. H. 104 ; W 164,5 ; D 51,5 cm (Some panels slightly sunburned, tiny chips on the edge of the marble top). The chest of drawers we present is reproduced in L'Ameublement d'art français 1850-1900, Camille Mestdagh, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2010, page 18 (fig.14) and page 274 (fig. 322). It is probably the chest of drawers kept in the large living room of Emmanuel Alfred Beurdeley's mansion, rue de Clichy in Paris, around 1910 (cf.Mestdagh, Camille, L'Ameublement d'art français 1850-1900, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2010, page 17 (fig. 13).