A North Italian parquetry desk, Lombard, in the manner of Fancesco Abbiati, early 19th century the rectangular sliding top inlaid with an octagon with berried laurel flanked by a neo-classical figure within a foliate border with a patera, with a profile medallion at each corner within an alternating band of patera flanked by husks above a long frieze drawer flanked by two short drawers on facetted tapering legs joined by an x-form stretcher inlaid with guilloche enclosing a patera centred by an oval inlaid with cube parquetry on ball feet, the frieze inlaid with seated addorsed figures flanking an urn feeding dragons; restored 70cm. high, 80.5cm. wide, 57cm. deep; 2ft. 3½in., 2ft. 7¾in., 1ft. 10½in.
A North Italian parquetry desk, Lombard, in the manner of Fancesco Abbiati, early 19th century the rectangular sliding top inlaid with an octagon with berried laurel flanked by a neo-classical figure within a foliate border with a patera, with a profile medallion at each corner within an alternating band of patera flanked by husks above a long frieze drawer flanked by two short drawers on facetted tapering legs joined by an x-form stretcher inlaid with guilloche enclosing a patera centred by an oval inlaid with cube parquetry on ball feet, the frieze inlaid with seated addorsed figures flanking an urn feeding dragons; restored 70cm. high, 80.5cm. wide, 57cm. deep; 2ft. 3½in., 2ft. 7¾in., 1ft. 10½in.
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