Large mahogany and mahogany veneered secrétaire en armoire à ressaut et colonne détachée. It opens with a drawer in the entablature, a flap at the top revealing a locker, six drawers and four cardboard boxes, and two leaves at the bottom concealing a locker and a safety deposit box. The straight rear uprights and detached column fronts are decorated with copper fluting. They stand on toupie feet. The ensemble is adorned with rich, finely chased and gilded bronze trim, such as dentilled cornices, oval and darted frames, fretted plates, moldings, Corinthian capitals, rings and sabots. Veined white marble top. Paris. Louis XVI period, circa 1785. H_146.5 cm W_101.5 cm D_45.5 cm Attributed to Jean-Jacques PAFRAT. Restoration. Provenance : Former Dimitri AGELASTO collection, Brussels. Handwritten inscription in black ink on an interior label, fi.1 "this secretary is the property of Mr. Dimitri Agelasto in Brussels". Bibliography Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle. Pierre Kjellberg. Les Éditions de l'Amateur - 2002 French cabinetmakers from Louis XIV to the Revolution. Alexandre Pradère. Paris - 1989