AN AMERICAN BURR WALNUT, GILT-BRONZE AND DOE SKIN 'AMBASSADE' DESK, CIRCA 1925

cf. E. Bréon, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, Furniture, the Designer's Archives, Paris, 2004, pp. 94-95 for a drawing of a similar desk.
E. Bréon and R. Pepall, exhibition catalogue, Ruhlmann, Genius of Art Deco, Musée des Années 30, Paris, 2004, pp. 16 and 26.
A. Duncan, Art Deco Furniture, New York, 1984, p. 153, no. 217.
F. Camard, Ruhlmann, Master of Art Deco, Paris, 1983, pp. 163 and 289.
A. Lesieutre, The Spirit and Splendour of Art Deco, Secaucus, 1978, fig. 26.
Y. Brunhammer, 1925, Paris, 1976, p. 202.