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A LOUIS XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
decorated with trompe l'oeil cube parquetry panels and ribbon-bound stiff-leaf borders with stylised paterae, the top with a three-quarter key gallery, the fall centred by a panel of chinoiserie figures with trees and enclosing a sliding tooled leather-lined writing surface and fitted interior with open compartments and four short and dummy drawers with three drawers below, on cabriole legs headed with a figure mask trailing to scroll sabots, one drawer bearing an indistinct label No 597 -- 37in. (94cm.) wide, 21in. (53cm.) deep, 42in. (107cm.) high
decorated with trompe l'oeil cube parquetry panels and ribbon-bound stiff-leaf borders with stylised paterae, the top with a three-quarter key gallery, the fall centred by a panel of chinoiserie figures with trees and enclosing a sliding tooled leather-lined writing surface and fitted interior with open compartments and four short and dummy drawers with three drawers below, on cabriole legs headed with a figure mask trailing to scroll sabots, one drawer bearing an indistinct label No 597 -- 37in. (94cm.) wide, 21in. (53cm.) deep, 42in. (107cm.) high