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CIRCA 1840
Details
A LOUIS-PHILIPPE EBONIZED AND LEATHER-MOUNTED ARCHITECT'S DESK
Circa 1840
The rectangular leather top with spring-loaded raising ratcheted work surface above a solid frieze over four drawers, the top raising on ratcheted supports, on octagonal legs and a central crank-turned stem joined by an H-form stretcher, with printed paper label 407420 and another printed TARIF NO/2 GRANDE...BRUXELLES/1887 and painted inscription BR36
29in. (74.5cm.)high, 51in. (131cm.) wide, 39in. (100cm.) deep
Circa 1840
The rectangular leather top with spring-loaded raising ratcheted work surface above a solid frieze over four drawers, the top raising on ratcheted supports, on octagonal legs and a central crank-turned stem joined by an H-form stretcher, with printed paper label 407420 and another printed TARIF NO/2 GRANDE...BRUXELLES/1887 and painted inscription BR36
29in. (74.5cm.)high, 51in. (131cm.) wide, 39in. (100cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 22 March 1996, lot 382