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A GERMAN ROCOCO STYLE PORCELAIN-MOUNTED EBONIZED DESK
With a rectangular breakfront superstructure with a three-quarter galleried top above a recessed case fitted with nine drawers centering a door all inset with Dresden style plaques depicting amorous couples in landscapes on a light blue ground divided by four porcelain disengaged colonnettes over a serpentine rectangular moulded top and a similarly mounted frieze fitted with three drawers and applied at the angles with porcelain S-scrolls with male terms on fluted porcelain baluster supports with foliate S-scrolling trestle ends surmounted by putti with a similar cross stretcher centering a scantily clad maiden with a horn, stamped 'GERHARDT 1774'
53½in. (135.9cm.) high, 44in. (111.7cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep
With a rectangular breakfront superstructure with a three-quarter galleried top above a recessed case fitted with nine drawers centering a door all inset with Dresden style plaques depicting amorous couples in landscapes on a light blue ground divided by four porcelain disengaged colonnettes over a serpentine rectangular moulded top and a similarly mounted frieze fitted with three drawers and applied at the angles with porcelain S-scrolls with male terms on fluted porcelain baluster supports with foliate S-scrolling trestle ends surmounted by putti with a similar cross stretcher centering a scantily clad maiden with a horn, stamped 'GERHARDT 1774'
53½in. (135.9cm.) high, 44in. (111.7cm.) wide, 26in. (66cm.) deep