A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE

STAMPED J.A.BRUNS AND TWICE JME, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU A CYLINDRE
STAMPED J.A.BRUNS AND TWICE JME, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The three-quarter galleried hinged rectangular folding top to reverse with a green leather-lined writing surface, above the tambour roll-top enclosing a green leather-lined writing-surface, three short drawers, three simulated drawers and two recesses, above a short drawer and knee-hole flanked by two short drawers to one and a coffre fort simulated as two drawers to the other, on square tapering legs with brass-caps and castors, stamped underneath left drawers, the front edge of the writing-slide later
45 in. (114 cm.) high, 51 in. (131 cm.) wide, 25½ in. (65 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Jean Antoine Bruns, maître in 1782.

Jean Antoine Bruns apprenticed with the Royal cabinet-maker Jean-Henri Riesener. He continuted to use the same fine timber and exquisite lacquers as Riesener after he became ébéniste du Garde-Meuble royal. Bruns' style is simple and elegant. His pieces posses graceful lines and proportions and beautiful construction. For a related mahogany console desserte with similar lines and proportions see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 123.

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