THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PARTIALLY REVENEERED

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PARTIALLY REVENEERED
The oval grey-veined white marble top with three-quarter pierced gallery, above a frieze drawer and a fall front inlaid with a quarter-veneered simulated panel enclosing a gilt-tooled green leather lined writing-surface, two drawers and two open shelves, the lower section of canted rectangular shape, with a frieze drawer and leather-lined writing slides to the sides, on cabriole legs joined by a galleried platform and terminating in foliate paw feet, the fitted interior partially replaced
50¼ in. (128 cm.); 24 in. (62 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A closely related secrétaire à abattant attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener is in the Wallace collection, London. Described as a bonheur du jour when lent by the 4th Marquess of Hertford to the Musée Rètrospectif in 1865, it has the same distinctive oval upper section with fall front and spreading canted angles above a rectangular 'table' base with chamfered corners and tapering legs joined by a galleried undertier (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. II, cat. 197, pp. 997-989).

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