41 records
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Item No. 3637
A high quality French mid 19th century Louis XVI st. rectangular table/desk. Raised by square tapered legs ending in ormolu sabots and with a top ormolu triple triangular ormolu mount below a rosette at the frieze. The legs are inlaid with a foliate marquetry at the frieze, with a drawer, highly decorated by a richly chased ormolu band. The band has an intertwining design with large rosettes in the center amidst foliate mount. The top has a fitted tan colored leather top with a gilt tooled border. Exceptional quality with all original gilt and hardware.
Length: 37"
Depth: 23"
Height: 29"
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Item No. 3581
A most powerful and of the highest quality French First Empire period, Circa. 1805, ‘Secretaire Abattant’. The secretary is solid Cuban mahogany and fire gilded ormolu mounts with two outer columns including ormolu bases and capitals. The bottom has two doors with Empire butterfly keyhole escutcheons opening to three large drawers. The fall-front opens to reveal a forest green lined writing surface, and four interior drawers with a secret central drawer, below the mirrored back and larger drawer. At the top is a heavily decorated drawer with fanciful and highly chased ormolu mounts, including a central winged maiden writing on a scroll. All below the Portor marble top.
Length: 38.5"
Depth: 19.5"
Height: 54.5"
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Item No. 3536
A sensational and important French 19th century Louis XV st. rosewood, tulipwood and ormolu desk, with all original gilt. Raised by cabriole legs with ormolu chutes at the top. The elegant scalloped apron has a central drawer flanked by pierced ormolu mounts and 2 larger fitted drawers with richly chased scrolling ormolu handles and keyholes. The sides are finished the same. The top has a thick ormolu moulded border surrounding a handsome tooled black leather top.
Length: 30.5"
Depth: 18.5"
Height: 30.5"
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Item No. 3519
A stunning and high quality 19th Century Transitional style Tulipwood and Satinwood inlaid oval "Bonheur Du Jour", in the manner of TOPINO. The desk is raised by cabriole legs with ormolu sabots joined by a kidney shaped tier. Above is a straight apron with wonderful style life scenes inlaid throughout, and on the sides. A central drawer flanked by ormolu chutes below 2 compartments with a central drawer. At the top is an impressive pierced gallery. All original gilt and hardware.
Length: 27"
Depth: 22"
Height: 37"
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Item No. 3494
A most spectacular and extremely high quality, French 19th century, circa. 1880, mahogany and ormolu mounted 'bureau plat', signed 'l. cuenieres, jme'. This presidential sized bureau plat is raised by impressive cabriole legs with wrap around sabots of acanthus leaves below exquisite maidens with an 's' scroll design. The three drawers are framed by an ormolu band and mounted by richly chased ormolu handles and keyhole escutcheons. The two ends have a central grotesque mask framed within bands. The top is fitted by its original gilt, tooled brown leather and bordered by an ormolu gallery and corner reserves. All original gilt and hardware.
Length: 74"
Depth: 38"
Height: 30"
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Item No. 3482
A spectacular and exceptional quality French Louis XV period 18th century secretary with an exquisite and highly detailed exoticwood floral marquetry inlay throughout the front and sides. The secretary is richly decorated by finely chased ormolu mounts with all original gilt. The scalloped frieze is below two doors with a shelf inside. Above is the drop front with a fitted leather surface and various sized compartments. At the top is a drawer below the original charcoal colored marble.
Length: 40.5"
Depth: 17"
Height: 59.5"
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Item No. 3472
A most exquisite and very high quality French mid 19th century Louis XV st. tulipwood and exoticwood inlaid desk with all original hardware and gilding. the desk is raised by tapering cabriole legs with impressive foliage shaped ormolu chutes at the top and similar designed ormolu sabots. The serpentine shaped apron has a large central drawer flanked by two fitted smaller drawers, all inlaid with a floral design amidst reserves. A rectangular top with a thick scalloped moulded ormolu border and a tooled brown leather writing surface.
Length: 39"
Depth: 24"
Height: 29.5"
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Item No. 3442
A sensational quality and extremely elegant 18th century, circa. 1750, French Louis XV period 'bureau a cylindre'. The bureau is raised by four cabriole legs decorated by ormolu chutes and sabots. The chutes continue to the scalloped apron with three drawers and inlaid bands of tulipwood and charmwood bordered by kingwood. Above is the roll top cylinder, in quarter veneered tulipwood. The roll top opens to a brown fitted leather pull-out writing surface with four drawers above an open compartment. ormolu mounts on each side with a male and a female figure. The top has a ? pierced ormolu gallery. The bureau is finished on all sides. All original mounts and gilt.
Length: 33"
Depth: 18"
Height: 38.5"
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Item No. 3290
An important French 19th century Empire st. mahogany, 5-drawer desk. The desk is raised by slightly tapering turned legs with an elegant ormolu band at the top. Above is the central drawer flanked on each side by 2 drawers. All decorated by an exquisite lattice design ormolu keyhole. The other side is centered by a large eagle shaped ormolu mount. At the top lays a handsome fitted tooled black leather. All original hardware.
Length: 60.5"
Depth: 38"
Height: 29.5"
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Item No. 3208
A high quality 19th century circa. 1880, French Louis XVI st desk, in tulipwood and kingwood, signed 'Escalier de Cristal, Paris. The desk is raised by four square tapered legs with ormolu sabots and ormolu bands at the top. The apron has a drop front drawer which enables the tulipwood herringbone designed folding top to open revealing a fitted brown leather writing surface with three faux drawers. The desk is finished on all sides. All original gilt and hardware.
Length: 30.5"
Depth: 18.5"
Height: 30.5"
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