Lot Essay
The offered lot is closely related to a marquetry bureau en pente in the Louvre by Bernard Van Risenburgh, also known as B.V.R.B. (see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français Du XVIII Siécle, 1989, p. 132).
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A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SCARLET LACQUER BUREAU EN PENTE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF B.V.R.B.
With a shaped rectangular top above a hinged slant-front enclosing drawers and hidden compartments and inset with a tooled brown leather writing surface above a shaped frieze, on cabriole legs with foliate sabots--35in. (88.9cm.) high, 37¾in. (96.5cm.) wide
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF B.V.R.B.
With a shaped rectangular top above a hinged slant-front enclosing drawers and hidden compartments and inset with a tooled brown leather writing surface above a shaped frieze, on cabriole legs with foliate sabots--35in. (88.9cm.) high, 37¾in. (96.5cm.) wide