$15,275
Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marble-top and Tulipwood Parquetry and Amboyna Inlaid Writing Desk, c. 1860, with breakfronted top above a frieze mounted with a panel of putti musicians and vitruvian scrolls, two glass doors and one central door having an oval plaque with birds and foliage; the lower section fitted with a sliding writing surface, foliage cast mounts and a central medallion flanked by two drawers, all on square tapered legs fitted with ram's heads and husks, ht. 53, wd. 38, dp. 19 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-07-19