A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK LACQUER BUREAU PLAT

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A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK LACQUER BUREAU PLAT

LATE 19TH CENTURY, MAXIME SECRETANT

With an ormolu-moulded rounded rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled brown leather surface above a shaped frieze fitted with three drawers, on cabriole legs with ormolu paw feet and mounted at the knees with foliate cast masks stamped 'M. Secretant'
29½in. (75cm.) high, 44½in. (113cm.) wide, 31in. (79cm.) deep

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Maxime Secretant was known to have worked at 74, rue Amelot in Paris towards the end of the 19th Century. He worked in association with his brother-in-law Léon Duval who worked for the well known ébéniste Gervais Durand and was known as a maker of fine furniture. (See D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXc Siècle, 1984, p.575).