AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD BUREAU PLAT, in the Regence style, the rectangular top inset with an imitation-leather writing surface, the frieze fitted with a central drawer and flanked to each side by a shaped drawer with a cornucopia mount and foliate-cast handles, stamped P.E. GUERIN. N.Y 39., the sides each with a female mask within a foliate border, on four square-shaped legs, each headed by two pairs of caryatid mounts, each with a feathered head-dress and with acanthus-cast sabot (the sabot stamped T.E. GUERIN N.Y./128,late 19th/early 20th Century

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD BUREAU PLAT, in the Regence style, the rectangular top inset with an imitation-leather writing surface, the frieze fitted with a central drawer and flanked to each side by a shaped drawer with a cornucopia mount and foliate-cast handles, stamped P.E. GUERIN. N.Y 39., the sides each with a female mask within a foliate border, on four square-shaped legs, each headed by two pairs of caryatid mounts, each with a feathered head-dress and with acanthus-cast sabot (the sabot stamped T.E. GUERIN N.Y./128,late 19th/early 20th Century

63in. (160cm.) wide; 30½in. (77.5cm.) high; 36in. (91.5cm.) deep

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