'THE SIR CECIL BEATON CBE DESK' A FINE LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD & PARQUETRY BUREAU EN PUPITRE The three quarter pierced gallery top above the tooled leather mounted sloping top, flanked by narrow drawers to the sides above the front tambour shutters enclosing nine small drawers bordered with purpleheart, embellished all round with trellis sycamore parquetry and boxwood stringing framed by ormolu beading, on tapering legs headed by foliate ormolu mounts, joined by two open galleried platform shelves with figured central olivewood oval inlay, ending in ormolu feet, the interior stencilled 103, 77 width x 54.5 depth x 133cm height Two keys PROVENANCE: 1980 Christie's Sale Catalogue of Contents of Reddish House, Broad Chalke, the former home of Sir Cecil Beaton C.B.E. Lot 54 page 35 Purchased: Partridge Fine Arts, London, ref. 20486
'THE SIR CECIL BEATON CBE DESK' A FINE LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD & PARQUETRY BUREAU EN PUPITRE The three quarter pierced gallery top above the tooled leather mounted sloping top, flanked by narrow drawers to the sides above the front tambour shutters enclosing nine small drawers bordered with purpleheart, embellished all round with trellis sycamore parquetry and boxwood stringing framed by ormolu beading, on tapering legs headed by foliate ormolu mounts, joined by two open galleried platform shelves with figured central olivewood oval inlay, ending in ormolu feet, the interior stencilled 103, 77 width x 54.5 depth x 133cm height Two keys PROVENANCE: 1980 Christie's Sale Catalogue of Contents of Reddish House, Broad Chalke, the former home of Sir Cecil Beaton C.B.E. Lot 54 page 35 Purchased: Partridge Fine Arts, London, ref. 20486
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