AN ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID WALNUT AND EBONISED BUREAU AND STOOL, inlaid overall with pewter scrolls with flowerheads and geometric banding, the rectangular top with later inlaid monogram of LL for Leopold, Duke of Albany, within a garter surround and below a coronet, the hinged flap inset with three panels of putti and reclining goddesses and enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers, the lower part with nine drawers around an opening inset with a stool with panelled solid ends carved with a grimacing mask and with turned legs, on foliate bun feet, stencilled repeatedly D.1672 and labelled twice H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF ALBANY, the stand with a German label stating the provenance from Queen Victoria of England, reconstructed in the early 19th Century incorporating earlier elements 55½in. (154cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high; 19½in. (49.5cm.) deep
AN ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID WALNUT AND EBONISED BUREAU AND STOOL, inlaid overall with pewter scrolls with flowerheads and geometric banding, the rectangular top with later inlaid monogram of LL for Leopold, Duke of Albany, within a garter surround and below a coronet, the hinged flap inset with three panels of putti and reclining goddesses and enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers, the lower part with nine drawers around an opening inset with a stool with panelled solid ends carved with a grimacing mask and with turned legs, on foliate bun feet, stencilled repeatedly D.1672 and labelled twice H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF ALBANY, the stand with a German label stating the provenance from Queen Victoria of England, reconstructed in the early 19th Century incorporating earlier elements 55½in. (154cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high; 19½in. (49.5cm.) deep
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