A SIMULATED TORTOISESHELL SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, with a gilt decoration of strapwork bands surrounding panels depicting a knight on horseback and two figures in medieval dress, eared white marble top above a frieze drawer and a fall flap opening to a fitted interior with pigeon-holes and drawers, the base with two cupboard doors opening to reveal four drawers and flanked by fluted pilasters, on toupie feet, stamped CHAPUIS twice

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A SIMULATED TORTOISESHELL SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT, with a gilt decoration of strapwork bands surrounding panels depicting a knight on horseback and two figures in medieval dress, eared white marble top above a frieze drawer and a fall flap opening to a fitted interior with pigeon-holes and drawers, the base with two cupboard doors opening to reveal four drawers and flanked by fluted pilasters, on toupie feet, stamped CHAPUIS twice
148 cm high x 100.5 cm wide x 45 cm deep

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