A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CYLINDER BUREAU

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CYLINDER BUREAU
In the Transitional style, late 19th early 20th Century

The rectangular pink marble top with a pierced three-quarter gallery, above the hinged fall front centred by a relief panel and flanked by a panel to each side, one emblematic of geography, the other of astronomy, the interior with a pull-out leather-lined writing surface, pigeon holes and four small drawers, the back and sides also inlaid with emblematical panels, above a knee-hole with a frieze drawer and a deep drawer to one side and a pair of small drawers to the other, the sides each with a pull-out leather-line slide, on square tapering cabriole legs, headed by foliate cast clasps, on pierced sabots
58in. (147.5cm.) wide; 46in. (117cm.) high; 30in. (76cm) deep

Lot Essay

The design of this secéretaire à cylindre is inspired from that of one supplied by J-H. Riesener to the Comtesse de Provence. The marquetry panels are similar to those of the celebrated bureau du Roi Stanislas, also by Riesener, now in The Wallace Collection, London, and the bureau du Roi, begun by Jean-Français Oeben, and finished by J-H. Riesener, now at Versailles.

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