A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CYLINDER BUREAU
In the Transitional style, late 19th early 20th Century
The rectangular pink 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 emblematical 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-line slide, on square tapering cabriole legs, headed by foliate cast clasps, on pierced sabots
58in. (147.5cm.) wide; 46in. (117cm.) high; 30in. (76cm) deep
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY CYLINDER BUREAU
In the Transitional style, late 19th early 20th Century
The rectangular pink 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 emblematical 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-line slide, on square tapering cabriole legs, headed by foliate cast clasps, on pierced sabots
58in. (147.5cm.) wide; 46in. (117cm.) high; 30in. (76cm) deep
