A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, TULIPWOOD AND SEVRES PATTERN PORCELAIN-MOUNTED BUREAUX DE DAME, each of bombé outline, with a pierced brass three-quarter gallery above a fall front inlaid with a parquetry panel and centred by an oval plaque within a ribbon-tied foliate mount, opening to reveal a fitted interior with four drawers and velvet-lined writing surface, one drawer compartmented and fitted with two leather covered containers with gilt tool work impressed Berry's Pattern London and inscribed "Light" and "Ink", the shaped frieze with a pair of foliate-decorated plaques within foliate-cast mounts, on four cabriole legs headed by pierced rams' head clasps to one, the other with bacchic herm and scroll mounts, each with shell-cast sabots,late 19th Century

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, TULIPWOOD AND SEVRES PATTERN PORCELAIN-MOUNTED BUREAUX DE DAME, each of bombé outline, with a pierced brass three-quarter gallery above a fall front inlaid with a parquetry panel and centred by an oval plaque within a ribbon-tied foliate mount, opening to reveal a fitted interior with four drawers and velvet-lined writing surface, one drawer compartmented and fitted with two leather covered containers with gilt tool work impressed Berry's Pattern London and inscribed "Light" and "Ink", the shaped frieze with a pair of foliate-decorated plaques within foliate-cast mounts, on four cabriole legs headed by pierced rams' head clasps to one, the other with bacchic herm and scroll mounts, each with shell-cast sabots,late 19th Century
30¾in. (78.3cm.); 37in. (94cm.); 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep (2)

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