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oraffOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE À ABATTANT
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
With rounded rectangular moulded liver and gray mottled marble top above a frieze drawer fitted with carved pulls and ribbon-tied lockplate above a fall-front opening to a later inset gilt-tooled black leather writing surface and enclosing four open compartments and six short drawers above a pair of cupboard doors enclosing three open
compartments with panelled sides and canted angles headed by classical chutes on short cabriole legs fitted with scroll sabots, inlaid throughout in bois-de-bout floral marquetry--56in. (142cm.) high, 39in. (99cm.) wide, 15¾ (40cm.) deep
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
With rounded rectangular moulded liver and gray mottled marble top above a frieze drawer fitted with carved pulls and ribbon-tied lockplate above a fall-front opening to a later inset gilt-tooled black leather writing surface and enclosing four open compartments and six short drawers above a pair of cupboard doors enclosing three open
compartments with panelled sides and canted angles headed by classical chutes on short cabriole legs fitted with scroll sabots, inlaid throughout in bois-de-bout floral marquetry--56in. (142cm.) high, 39in. (99cm.) wide, 15¾ (40cm.) deep