A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS INLAID, RED AND BLUE-STAINED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ MARQUETRY EBONY AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT IN THE MANNER OF ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1880 Finely decorated overall in premier partie, the red-velvet inset rectangular top above a central spring-activated frieze drawer centred by a blue-stained horn cartouche inlaid with etched brass Berainesque scrolls and sided by two smaller drawers with Apollo mask escutcheons, the reverse with similar false drawers, the sides each mounted with a Bacchic mask, on cabriole legs headed by espagnolettes terminating in acanthus-clad lion-paw feet, the inside of the drawer with plaque inscribed ' S.. JEWELL/ 131 &132, HIGH HOLBORN,/ LONDON, W.C.' 32 ½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 61 ¼ in. (155.5 cm.) wide; 36 ½ in. (91.5 cm.) deep
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, CUT-BRASS INLAID, RED AND BLUE-STAINED TORTOISESHELL ‘BOULLE’ MARQUETRY EBONY AND EBONISED BUREAU PLAT IN THE MANNER OF ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1880 Finely decorated overall in premier partie, the red-velvet inset rectangular top above a central spring-activated frieze drawer centred by a blue-stained horn cartouche inlaid with etched brass Berainesque scrolls and sided by two smaller drawers with Apollo mask escutcheons, the reverse with similar false drawers, the sides each mounted with a Bacchic mask, on cabriole legs headed by espagnolettes terminating in acanthus-clad lion-paw feet, the inside of the drawer with plaque inscribed ' S.. JEWELL/ 131 &132, HIGH HOLBORN,/ LONDON, W.C.' 32 ½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 61 ¼ in. (155.5 cm.) wide; 36 ½ in. (91.5 cm.) deep
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