Details
AN ITALIAN BAROQUE INLAID ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
PROBABLY FLORENTINE
With serpentine crossbanded top above four short drawers centering an open compartment above an incurved rectangular writing panel and two conforming frieze drawers, on canted square legs joined by a later X-shaped stretcher, on bun feet--37in. (92.5cm.) high, 55in. (137.5cm.) wide, 30in. (75cm.) deep
PROBABLY FLORENTINE
With serpentine crossbanded top above four short drawers centering an open compartment above an incurved rectangular writing panel and two conforming frieze drawers, on canted square legs joined by a later X-shaped stretcher, on bun feet--37in. (92.5cm.) high, 55in. (137.5cm.) wide, 30in. (75cm.) deep
Further details
A virtually identical writing table is illustrated in W.M. Odom, A History of Italian Furniture, 1966, vol. II, p. 31, fig. 31.