AN EMPIRE-STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT
AFTER A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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AN EMPIRE-STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT
AFTER A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with moulded edge inset with a gilt-tooled dark green leather writing surface with a writing slide to each end, above three frieze drawer to both sides the frieze embellished with a central mask roundel escutcheon and a pair of stars within a circular border each flanked by palmettes with a further pair of crowned mask escutcheons, on lyre-formed legs joined by turned stretchers terminating in lion paw feet on a plinth base
30 ¹/₄ in. (77 cm.) high; 70 ¹/₂ in. (179 cm.) wide; 38 ¹/₂ in. (97 cm.) deep
AFTER A MODEL BY FRANÇOIS-HONORE-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with moulded edge inset with a gilt-tooled dark green leather writing surface with a writing slide to each end, above three frieze drawer to both sides the frieze embellished with a central mask roundel escutcheon and a pair of stars within a circular border each flanked by palmettes with a further pair of crowned mask escutcheons, on lyre-formed legs joined by turned stretchers terminating in lion paw feet on a plinth base
30 ¹/₄ in. (77 cm.) high; 70 ¹/₂ in. (179 cm.) wide; 38 ¹/₂ in. (97 cm.) deep
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Paul Gallois
Head of European Furniture