Lot Essay
Etienne Levasseur, maître in 1767
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU PLAT
LATE 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED E LEVASSEUR
With rectangular top fitted with a gilt-tooled brown eared leather writing panel above a panelled frieze drawer flanked by two short drawers and a deep drawer panelled to simulate two, each fitted with tasselled rope-twist pulls, the sides fitted with leather-lined slides, the back with opposing sham drawers, on tapering fluted legs headed by engine-turned capitals and ending in similarly cast toupie sabots-30½ in. (77.5cm.) high, 74 in. (188cm.) wide, 32½ in. (83cm.) depth
LATE 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED E LEVASSEUR
With rectangular top fitted with a gilt-tooled brown eared leather writing panel above a panelled frieze drawer flanked by two short drawers and a deep drawer panelled to simulate two, each fitted with tasselled rope-twist pulls, the sides fitted with leather-lined slides, the back with opposing sham drawers, on tapering fluted legs headed by engine-turned capitals and ending in similarly cast toupie sabots-30½ in. (77.5cm.) high, 74 in. (188cm.) wide, 32½ in. (83cm.) depth