A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CYLINDER-BUREAU, the rounded rectangular superstructure with inset pink brocatelle marble top above three stiff-leaf moulded panelled drawers, the roll-top with bearded Ionic mask-handles enclosing a fitted interior with green leather-lined sliding writing-surface, three drawers and three arcaded pigeon-holes, above a central frieze drawer and kneehole and flanked by two drawers, one fitted to one side and a deep drawer simulated as two drawers and containing a coffre-fort to the other, the back and sides mounted with similar panels, on winged Egyptian herm-supports and foliate-trailed tapering legs with caryatid feet, the marble broken, early 19th Century, the left section of the top moulding lacking, second quarter 19th Century

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A GERMAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CYLINDER-BUREAU, the rounded rectangular superstructure with inset pink brocatelle marble top above three stiff-leaf moulded panelled drawers, the roll-top with bearded Ionic mask-handles enclosing a fitted interior with green leather-lined sliding writing-surface, three drawers and three arcaded pigeon-holes, above a central frieze drawer and kneehole and flanked by two drawers, one fitted to one side and a deep drawer simulated as two drawers and containing a coffre-fort to the other, the back and sides mounted with similar panels, on winged Egyptian herm-supports and foliate-trailed tapering legs with caryatid feet, the marble broken, early 19th Century, the left section of the top moulding lacking, second quarter 19th Century
58in. (147.5cm.) wide; 50¼in. (127.5cm.) high; 27½in. (70cm.) deep

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A related cylinder bureau stamped 'JACOB RUE DES VINAIGRIERS' (a stamp apparently used between 1837 and 1846), is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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