A fine Louis XVI oak-lined mahogany bureau plat, the rectangular top with a black leather-lined writing surface above a central frieze drawer and shaped knee hole flanked by two smaller drawers to the left and single deep drawer with false double front to the right, each oak-lined drawer with shaped fitted drawer linings and a plain escutcheon, the sides fitted with black leather-lined writing slides with ring pulls, the angles mounted by a rectangular fluted block on turned tapering legs headed by gilt bands and terminating in turned caps Paris, date circa 1785 Height 75 cm, length 192cm, depth 78 cm. |