A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD SECRÉTAIRE À ABATTANT

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD SECRÉTAIRE À ABATTANT
LATE 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED P.DEFRICHE JME

With rounded rectangular grey mottled marble top above a frieze drawer and a fall-front inlaid with geometric stringing and veneered à quatre faces and enclosing an interior fitted with an inset tan leather writing panel, five open compartments and six short drawers, above a pair of cupboard doors and a shelf, the canted angles headed by foliate-cast chutes, on similarly mounted stile feet-55in. (140cm.) high, 36in. (92cm.) wide, 16½in. (42cm.) deep

Pierre Defriche, maître in 1766