A LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY ORMOLU-MOUNTED SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT by Joseph Gengenbach dit Canabas with later canted rectangular white marble top above one long drawer with compartments and a fall-front enclosing a fitted interior, with six drawers of which one is spring-loaded, above two doors enclosing a shelf between canted angles, on angle-bracket feet stamped I.CANABAS, formerly with ormolu borders to the fall-front, the doors and sides, the back feet replaced

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A LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY ORMOLU-MOUNTED SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT by Joseph Gengenbach dit Canabas with later canted rectangular white marble top above one long drawer with compartments and a fall-front enclosing a fitted interior, with six drawers of which one is spring-loaded, above two doors enclosing a shelf between canted angles, on angle-bracket feet stamped I.CANABAS, formerly with ormolu borders to the fall-front, the doors and sides, the back feet replaced
37in. (94cm.) wide; 55½in. (141cm.) high; 14¼in. (36cm.) deep

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Joseph Gengenbach dit Canabas, (1712-1797), maître in 1766

It is possible that this piece was not originally intended to have the ormolu mounts of which the marks are now visible, but that these were added at a later date

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