A DUTCH SATINWOOD PARQUETRY AND CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the eared rectangular black marble top above a frieze drawer with simulated dentilled recessed lacquer panel with porcelain handles, the fallfront with a further panel of eagles in a landscape and C-scroll border, the crossbanded outer border with beaded angles, enclosing a fitted interior with baize-lined writing-surface, six drawers around a tambour shutter and pigeon-holes, the base with a lozenge-inlaid frieze and two doors with further panels of vases of flowers, enclosing one shelf, between canted lozenge-inlaid angles on square tapering feet, late 18th Century, minor restorations | Christie's

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A DUTCH SATINWOOD PARQUETRY AND CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the eared rectangular black marble top above a frieze drawer with simulated dentilled recessed lacquer panel with porcelain handles, the fallfront with a further panel of eagles in a landscape and C-scroll border, the crossbanded outer border with beaded angles, enclosing a fitted interior with baize-lined writing-surface, six drawers around a tambour shutter and pigeon-holes, the base with a lozenge-inlaid frieze and two doors with further panels of vases of flowers, enclosing one shelf, between canted lozenge-inlaid angles on square tapering feet, late 18th Century, minor restorations

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A DUTCH SATINWOOD PARQUETRY AND CHINESE BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, the eared rectangular black marble top above a frieze drawer with simulated dentilled recessed lacquer panel with porcelain handles, the fallfront with a further panel of eagles in a landscape and C-scroll border, the crossbanded outer border with beaded angles, enclosing a fitted interior with baize-lined writing-surface, six drawers around a tambour shutter and pigeon-holes, the base with a lozenge-inlaid frieze and two doors with further panels of vases of flowers, enclosing one shelf, between canted lozenge-inlaid angles on square tapering feet, late 18th Century, minor restorations
38¾in. (98.5cm.) wide; 60in. (152cm.) high; 17in. (43cm.) deep

拍品專文

A similar secrétaire à abattant from The Edward James Collection was sold at a Christie's House Sale, West Dean Park, Chichester, West Sussex, 2, 3 and 6 June 1986, lot 52 and anonymously at Christie's Amsterdam, 18 December 1992, lot 352.

A closely related secrétaire à abattant is illustrated in Léon de Gröer, Les Arts Décoratifs de 1790 à 1850, Fribourg, 1985, p. 101, fig. 167