AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, mounted overall with pierced foliate lockplates with flowerhead covers, the canted rectangular top above a fall-front enclosing a fitted interior, flanked by pilaster angles headed by entwined acanthus mounts, the lower section with two doors, on square tapering legs with lotus-leaf cast caps, restorations to one back leg, early 19th Century, possibly originally with inset marble top

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AN AUSTRIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, mounted overall with pierced foliate lockplates with flowerhead covers, the canted rectangular top above a fall-front enclosing a fitted interior, flanked by pilaster angles headed by entwined acanthus mounts, the lower section with two doors, on square tapering legs with lotus-leaf cast caps, restorations to one back leg, early 19th Century, possibly originally with inset marble top
26¼in. (67cm.) wide; 48¼in. (122cm.) high; 15½in. (99cm.) deep

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