Lot 159
  • 159

A mahogany bureau à cylindre Louis XVI, late 18th century, partly remounted

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • 116cm. high, 128cm. wide, 65cm. deep; 3ft. 9¾in., 4ft. 2½in., 2ft. 1½in.
with a three-quarter galleried veined grey and white marble top, above three frieze drawers, the roll-top opening to reveal a pull-out leather-lined writing slide, three drawers with brass mouldings, above three dummy drawers and pigeon holes, the left side with a pull-out leather inset flap, the lower section with a kneehole surmounted by a drawer flanked on the left by two short drawers and on the right with one drawer panelled to simulate two drawers, enclosing a coffre-fort, on fluted tapering legs, terminating in gilt-bronze shell cast feet and brass castors, veneered on the back to form a centrepiece