A gilt-metal-mounted kingwood, mahogany and marquetry secretaire a cylindre, after a model by J.H. Riesener, with three-quarter brass gallery about breche violette marble top above a fall centred by a long ribbon-tied laurel-bound oval panel with poetic trophies, enclosing a fitted interior and sliding leather-lined writing surface above a panel of frolicking putti flanked by two short drawers, above shaped apron on foliate-collared square tapering legs with foliate sabots, late 19th century -- 46in. (117cm.) wide.

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A gilt-metal-mounted kingwood, mahogany and marquetry secretaire a cylindre, after a model by J.H. Riesener, with three-quarter brass gallery about breche violette marble top above a fall centred by a long ribbon-tied laurel-bound oval panel with poetic trophies, enclosing a fitted interior and sliding leather-lined writing surface above a panel of frolicking putti flanked by two short drawers, above shaped apron on foliate-collared square tapering legs with foliate sabots, late 19th century -- 46in. (117cm.) wide.
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This secretaire a cylindre in the Louis XVI style, is a variant of the bureau with mother-of-pearl "trellis" marquetry made by Riesener for Marie-Antoinette's boudoir at Fontainbleu in 1786. The 'poetic' trophy was, no doubt, inspired by the ormolu medallion accompanyung a tablet of festive putti, on Marie-Antoinette's seretaire a abattant, also by Reisener, in the Prince Demidoff Collection, sold San Donato, 22 March 1870, lot 282.

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