A gilt and Japanned lacquered bureau mazarin Louis XIV

the top decorated with woman serving tea to man, smoking a long pipe, three ladies at leisure to the right, a temple in the background, the drawers depicting scenes of daily life, the back showing a mountainous landscape, in the foreground elegant ladies, on eight s-scrolled legs joined by x-shaped stretchers, on toupie feet, with later glass top

In reasonably good condition, some horizontal dryness cracks to borders of top, left side with vertical dryness crack, overall with minor wear to the lacquer and gilding, minor losses to extremities, central door with one partly loose hinge, one stretcher with crack.
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