Lot Essay
Joseph Stockel, maître in 1775
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STAMPED I.STOCKEL, CIRCA 1780
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A LOUIS XVI BRASS-MOUNTED AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY CYLINDER-BUREAU
Stamped I.STOCKEL, circa 1780
The rectangular top within a three-quarter pierced gallery, above three frieze drawers, the cylinder enclosing various open compartments and drawers and a pull-out leather-lined writing slide, above a central drawer flanked by two drawers to one side and a deep drawer faced as two and enclosing a coffre-forte on the other, with fluted quarter-turned angles, the sides with pull-out writing slides, on turned tapering fluted legs, later parcel-gilt
47½in. (120.5cm.) high, 48in. (122cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep
Stamped I.STOCKEL, circa 1780
The rectangular top within a three-quarter pierced gallery, above three frieze drawers, the cylinder enclosing various open compartments and drawers and a pull-out leather-lined writing slide, above a central drawer flanked by two drawers to one side and a deep drawer faced as two and enclosing a coffre-forte on the other, with fluted quarter-turned angles, the sides with pull-out writing slides, on turned tapering fluted legs, later parcel-gilt
47½in. (120.5cm.) high, 48in. (122cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep