Veneered wood cylinder desk with leaf inlaid decoration in fillet frames. It features an upper doucine top decorated with scrolls and vine shoots, hemmed by a brass gallery underlined by scalloped drapery. The middle section features a floral basket flanked by interlacing, fleur-de-lys in the spandrels revealing a niche, three drawers and three simulated drawers and a sliding top. The lower section features three drawers, two of which are boxed on the outside. The sides are decorated with branches and painting attributes, and it rests on four tapered legs with square sections ending in bronze sabots. Louis XVI style, late 12th/early 20th century (accidents, missing parts, missing veneer, bronze parts to be refixed and one locked drawer) Height : 115 cm - Width : 101.5 cm - Depth : 58 cm

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