BY FERDINAND BURY, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND AMARANTH BUREAU A CYLINDRE
BY FERDINAND BURY, CIRCA 1780
The tambour top with three-quarter pierced gallery, above roll-top enclosing a fitted interior and a sliding inset gilt-tooled red leather-writing-surface, above a frieze drawer flanked by two short drawers to one side and a coffre-fort simulated as two drawers to the other, the reverse with mirroring faux drawers, with writing-slides to each side, on fluted tapering legs, the underside stamped 'F. BURY' and 'JME'
44 in. (112 cm.) high; 57 ½ in. (146 cm.) wide; 31 ½ in. (80 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Ferdinand Bury, maître in 1774.

A desk of identical shape, also stamped by Ferdinand Bury and in mahogany, was sold at Poulain Le Fur, Paris, 23 March 2000, lot 182.

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