A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD WRITING TABLE

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD WRITING TABLE
In the Louis XVI style

The serpentine shaped top with a pierced brass three-quarter gallery, with two carrying-handles, inlaid with intersecting lines, above a drawer fitted with a leather lined slide and a further drawer below, the side also fitted with a drawer, on square shaped tapering legs headed by rams' mask keeled acanthus cast mounts, on scroll sabots
25in. (63.5cm.) wide; 29¾in. (75cm.) high; 19½in. (49.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

It's protype, a lady's mechanical toilet/writing-table, bearing the brand of Jean Francois Leleu (d. 1807) was acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford in 1867 and formerly attributed to Oeben or Riesener (see F. J. B. Watson, Wallace Collection; Furniture, London, 1957, No. F111.).

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