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A BOULLE BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND EBONISED BUREAU-MAZARIN, 19th Century
Inlaid en contre partie with Bérainesque designs of foliate arabesques, the brass-bound rectangular top inlaid with espagnolette masks and dancing figures beneath foliate-trailed baldequins, the angles with masks and the ground with butterflies, insects and putto, above a concave-fronted kneehole with one drawer and a door, simulated as two drawers, enclosing a plain interior, flanked by two tiers of three graduated drawers between canted angles, the reverse with simulated drawers and the sides similarly inlaid, on square tapering legs joined by waved double X-shaped stretchers, on tapering bun feet, restoration to one stretcher, the lock indistinctly inscribed
46½in. (118cm.) wide; 30¾in. (78cm.) high; 26½in. (67.5cm.) deep
