A LOUIS XIV BRASS-BOUND AND RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BUREAU MAZARINS INLAID EN PREMIèRE AND CONTREPARTIE , THE MOULDED RECTANGULAR TOP CENTRED BY A DOMED CANOPY, ABOVE AN EAGLE NURSING HER YOUNG WITHIN A SCROLLING ARABESQUE FIELD INLAID WITH STYLISED GOATS, FEMALE MASKS AND GADROONED URNS FLANKED BY GROTESQUE WINGED CREATURES AND TRAILING FOLIAGE WITHIN AN EBONY BORDER, ABOVE A CENTRAL FRIEZE DRAWER ABOVE A CONCAVE-FRONTED KNEEHOLE WITH HINGED DOOR FLANKED TO EACH SIDE BY THREE FURTHER BOWFRONTED GRADUATED DRAWERS EACH BETWEN CANTED SHAPED ANGLES, THE SIDES SIMILARLY INLAID, WITH RAISED RECTANGULAR PANEL ON SQUARE TAPERING LEGS WITH X-SHAPED STRETCHER AND AND LATER TOUPIE FEET, DISTRESSED, EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTION, THE DRAWERS PARTIALLY RELINED, THE INTERIOR WITH SOME REPLACEMENTS, THE UNDERSIDE OF THE TOP LARGELY REPLACED, ELEMENTS OF THE BOULLE WORK REPLACED 49½IN. (126CM.) WIDE; 33IN.(84CM.) HIGH; 29IN.(73.5CM.) DEEP
A LOUIS XIV BRASS-BOUND AND RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE BUREAU MAZARINS INLAID EN PREMIèRE AND CONTREPARTIE , THE MOULDED RECTANGULAR TOP CENTRED BY A DOMED CANOPY, ABOVE AN EAGLE NURSING HER YOUNG WITHIN A SCROLLING ARABESQUE FIELD INLAID WITH STYLISED GOATS, FEMALE MASKS AND GADROONED URNS FLANKED BY GROTESQUE WINGED CREATURES AND TRAILING FOLIAGE WITHIN AN EBONY BORDER, ABOVE A CENTRAL FRIEZE DRAWER ABOVE A CONCAVE-FRONTED KNEEHOLE WITH HINGED DOOR FLANKED TO EACH SIDE BY THREE FURTHER BOWFRONTED GRADUATED DRAWERS EACH BETWEN CANTED SHAPED ANGLES, THE SIDES SIMILARLY INLAID, WITH RAISED RECTANGULAR PANEL ON SQUARE TAPERING LEGS WITH X-SHAPED STRETCHER AND AND LATER TOUPIE FEET, DISTRESSED, EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS AND RECONSTRUCTION, THE DRAWERS PARTIALLY RELINED, THE INTERIOR WITH SOME REPLACEMENTS, THE UNDERSIDE OF THE TOP LARGELY REPLACED, ELEMENTS OF THE BOULLE WORK REPLACED 49½IN. (126CM.) WIDE; 33IN.(84CM.) HIGH; 29IN.(73.5CM.) DEEP
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