A gilt-bronze-mounted kingwood and parquetry bureau plat stamped with the letters EC and the Fontainebleau marque au fer and the ink inventory marks 1686 above 1753 M . N 947 Commission Gouvernement N 8 Louis XV, mid 18th century the leather-lined top of serpentine outline within a moulded brass edge with cartouche cast corner clasps, above a frieze drawer flanked on either side by a drawer, opposing three dummy drawers, on square cut cabriole legs with espagnolette cast volutes and leaf and hoof sabots, with foliate and rocaille cast handles and escutcheons; possibly reveneered and side masks possibly replaced 74cm. high, 163cm. wide, 80cm. deep; 2ft. 5in., 5ft. 4½in., 2ft. 7½in.
A gilt-bronze-mounted kingwood and parquetry bureau plat stamped with the letters EC and the Fontainebleau marque au fer and the ink inventory marks 1686 above 1753 M . N 947 Commission Gouvernement N 8 Louis XV, mid 18th century the leather-lined top of serpentine outline within a moulded brass edge with cartouche cast corner clasps, above a frieze drawer flanked on either side by a drawer, opposing three dummy drawers, on square cut cabriole legs with espagnolette cast volutes and leaf and hoof sabots, with foliate and rocaille cast handles and escutcheons; possibly reveneered and side masks possibly replaced 74cm. high, 163cm. wide, 80cm. deep; 2ft. 5in., 5ft. 4½in., 2ft. 7½in.
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