A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted ebonized bureau plat by Pierre Denizot, circa 1765

the top with a gilt-tooled leather surface and with a moulded gilt-bronze border, the frieze containing a leather-lined writing slide with conforming leather and mounted with a gilt-bronze entrelac border incorporating rosettes, the corners with lion masks above square tapering feet centred with gilt-bronze mounts in the form of husks hanging from a ribbon, the legs terminating in foliate gilt-bronze sabots, stamped P. DENIZOT the underside with a label reading 8037, the drawer altered as secretaire drawer with a fall front

84cm high, 161cm wide, 87cm deep; 33 in., 63 1/2 in., 34 1/4 in.