Lot Essay
Antoine Criaerd active 1720-1750
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A French kingwood bureau de dame, 18th century
Decorated with crossbanding, the sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior of short drawers, pigeon holes, a covered well and a leather-lined writing surface, the frieze fitted with two drawers above a shaped apron, on cabriole legs terminating in gilt sabots, indistinctly stamped twice, probably A Criaerd, restorations
32in. (81.5cm.) wide, 38in. (96.5cm.) high, 17¼in. (44.5cm.) deep
Decorated with crossbanding, the sloping fall enclosing a fitted interior of short drawers, pigeon holes, a covered well and a leather-lined writing surface, the frieze fitted with two drawers above a shaped apron, on cabriole legs terminating in gilt sabots, indistinctly stamped twice, probably A Criaerd, restorations
32in. (81.5cm.) wide, 38in. (96.5cm.) high, 17¼in. (44.5cm.) deep