A French ormolu-mounted mahogany, kingwood and marquetry cylinder bureau

IN THE TRANSITIONAL STYLE, AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1900

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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany, kingwood and marquetry cylinder bureau
In the Transitional Style, After the model by Jean-Henri Riesener, Circa 1900
The rectangular liver-coloured marble top with a pierced three-quarter gallery, above the hinged fall-front centred by a relief panel and flanked by a panel to each side, one emblematic of geography, the other of astronomy, the interior with a pull-out leather-lined writing surface, pigeon-holes and four small drawers, the back and sides also inlaid with emblematic panels, above a knee-hole with a frieze drawer and a deep drawer to one side and a pair of small drawers to the other, the sides each with a pull-out leather-lined slide, on cabriole legs headed by foliate-cast clasps, on pierced sabots
46 in. (117 cm.) high; 58 in. (147.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76.2 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The design of this secrtaire cylindre is inspired from that of one supplied by J-H. Riesener to the Comtesse de Provence. The marquetry panels are similar to those of the celebrated bureau du Roi Stanislas, also by Riesener, now in the The Wallace Collection, London, and the bureau du Roi, begun by Jean-Franois Oeben, and finished by J-H. Riesener, now at Versailles.

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