A French gilt-bronze mounted mahogany and plum pudding bureau à cylindre circa 1895

the rectangular upper section with a pierced three-quarter gallery, above three small frieze drawers, the cylinder top opening to arrangment of compartments and filling trays above a pull-out blue leather lined writing surface, each sides with conforming pull out writing surface, fitted with three frieze drawers, on tapering legs and claw feet.

The present bureau à cylindre is a copy of the model by Jean-Henri Riesener which was made  in 1784 for Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville d'Avray, keeper of the royal furniture.  The original was eventually used by Louis XVIII and Charles X before joining the furniture collection in the Louvre.