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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU DE DAME
The rounded rectangular top and shaped hinged slope inlaid with flowers, enclosing a fitted interior with two pigeon-holes, four small drawers and a brown leather-lined writing-surface, above a hinged well, above two frieze drawers, with foliate angle mounts, on cabriole legs with C-scroll and foliage sabots, the interior arrangment altered, remounted, the frieze drawers added later
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 34¼ in. (87 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep
The rounded rectangular top and shaped hinged slope inlaid with flowers, enclosing a fitted interior with two pigeon-holes, four small drawers and a brown leather-lined writing-surface, above a hinged well, above two frieze drawers, with foliate angle mounts, on cabriole legs with C-scroll and foliage sabots, the interior arrangment altered, remounted, the frieze drawers added later
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 34¼ in. (87 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 12 May 1973, lot 279 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. D-23).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. D-23).
Special notice
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