Gueridon "bouillotte" in mahogany and ebony, opening to two small drawers and two pulls in belt, friezes of pearls in the belts, plates brettées and azurées in the dices of the amounts connected by a shelf of crotch, resting on spindle feet finished by hooves with casters, top of white marble girdled with a gallery Louis XVI period H. 79 cm; D. 65 cm Stains on the shelf, wear, minor accidents

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