SECRETARY in mahogany, mahogany veneer, brass fillet. It opens with a drawer in the upper part, a flap lined with green leather, revealing four compartments and six drawers. It presents in the lower part two doors opening on a drawer and a shelf. Upright with fluted columns topped by scraper plates and finished by toupee feet. Grey marble top covered with an openwork copper gallery. Period: end of the Louis XVI style, end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. H : 181 L : 91 D : 37cm. (Small accidents and cracks in the veneer. Restored marble.)

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