A French satinwood, inlaid and ormolu mounted bureau plat, 19th century

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A French satinwood, inlaid and ormolu mounted bureau plat, 19th century
By Krieger, in the Louis XVI style, with purplewood lines and ebony stringing, the shelved superstructure of recessed broken outline, with pierced brass guilloche gallery and moulded edge containing a drawer above an arched open compartment below to either side, with beaded panels to the centre, the top inset with a panel of brown tooled leather with a shuttered brass moulded edge with projecting rounded corners, containing three drawers in the slightly arched apron between shuttered ornament, on simulated fluted inlaid tapering legs terminating in sabots, the top of the central drawer with a lock inscribed Mon Krieger Ameublement Paris
24in. (126cm.) wide, 39in. (101cm.) high, 25in. (65cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Antoine Krieger was a major manufactuer during the second half of the nineteenth century and exhibited in 1852 and 1855, making copies of eighteenth century furniture. Cf: European Furniture by Christopher Payne

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