51 - A veneered wooden secretary desk with a richly inlaid design featuring floral baskets and bouquets.

A veneered wooden secretary desk with a richly inlaid design featuring floral baskets and bouquets. It opens to reveal a drawer adorned with interlacing patterns and quatrefoils, a drop-down panel with a red-gilded leather panel featuring small ironwork, revealing six drawers and compartments, and two doors in the lower section revealing three drawers and a compartment. Side posts with simulated fluting. Ornamentation in chiseled and gilded bronze. Top in veined pink marble. Stamped “F. Rubestuck” and guild hallmark. Louis XVI period. (Sun-faded, re-gilded bronze, minor imperfections in the veneer). Height: 131 cm - Length: 75 cm - Depth: 37 cm François Rubestuck became a master craftsman in 1766. Provenance: A couple of collectors; the entire furnishings of an apartment overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens. Expert: IEP CONSEIL