The Property of a European Princely Family
A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY BUREAU CABINET-ON-STAND
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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY BUREAU CABINET-ON-STAND
Mid-18th Century
The waved rockwork and C-scroll cresting carved with foliate-trails and surmounted by a garlanded gadrooned urn-finial, the arc-en-arbalette front with central star-burst parquetry door on a burr-walnut ground beneath a scrolled broken pediment with central cabochon, the Ionic pilaster-strips flanked by five drawers with locking device, the bombé base-section with star-burst inlaid fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with green baize-lined writing-surface and five drawers beyond, flanked by two further drawers to each side, the stand with a long frieze-drawer above a pierced C-scroll and cabochon apron, on rockwork cabochon-headed channelled double C-scroll cabriole legs and scroll feet
50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 88 in. (223.5 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep
Mid-18th Century
The waved rockwork and C-scroll cresting carved with foliate-trails and surmounted by a garlanded gadrooned urn-finial, the arc-en-arbalette front with central star-burst parquetry door on a burr-walnut ground beneath a scrolled broken pediment with central cabochon, the Ionic pilaster-strips flanked by five drawers with locking device, the bombé base-section with star-burst inlaid fall-front enclosing a fitted interior with green baize-lined writing-surface and five drawers beyond, flanked by two further drawers to each side, the stand with a long frieze-drawer above a pierced C-scroll and cabochon apron, on rockwork cabochon-headed channelled double C-scroll cabriole legs and scroll feet
50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 88 in. (223.5 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep