A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT by Jacques Dubois, with inset green leather-lined serpentine rectangular top with moulded brass borders and rockwork cabochon clasps to the angles, the shaped frieze with central concave-fronted drawer flanked by two further drawers, with acanthus and rockwork mounts, with three simulated drawers to the reverse, the dished sides with central C-scroll, rockwork and cabochon mounts, upon foliage, rockwork and cabochon-mounted cabriole legs with acanthus-wrapped clasps and scrolled foliate sabots, with chalk inscription the underside 93, indistinctly stamped I.DUBOIS JM..., restorations, partially re-mounted with 18th century mounts

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT by Jacques Dubois, with inset green leather-lined serpentine rectangular top with moulded brass borders and rockwork cabochon clasps to the angles, the shaped frieze with central concave-fronted drawer flanked by two further drawers, with acanthus and rockwork mounts, with three simulated drawers to the reverse, the dished sides with central C-scroll, rockwork and cabochon mounts, upon foliage, rockwork and cabochon-mounted cabriole legs with acanthus-wrapped clasps and scrolled foliate sabots, with chalk inscription the underside 93, indistinctly stamped I.DUBOIS JM..., restorations, partially re-mounted with 18th century mounts
70¼in. (178.5cm.) wide; 31¼in. (79.5cm.) high; 30½in. (77.5cm.) deep

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Jacques Dubois, maître en 1742

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