A fine Louis XVI style ‘bureau plat’, with a tooled leather top and two drawers
$3.600,00
A fine Louis XVI style ‘bureau plat’, with a tooled leather top and two drawers. Originally designed to be a writing table or desk, it would have a large and flat top for ease of writing, and for storing quills and fountain pens, and several shallow frieze drawers to hold writing implements. The bureau plat became more widely a key piece of gentleman’s furniture for dealing with correspondence and business affairs. This attractive and very useful desk has a rectangular tooled-leather lined top, which makes an ideal writing surface, and its two frieze drawers open with ornate brass ring-pull handles, topped with an elaborate swag. The legs are long and fluted, tapering down to shaped feet, with ornate but understated mouldings at the crest of each front leg. The desk is fitted with a maker’s plate, showing its manufacturer to be the Maison Dumas, of 26 rue Notre-Dame des Victoires in Paris.
Additional information
Height | 75,5 cm |
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Length | 95 cm |
Width | 55 cm |
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