A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted kingwood and satiné trellis parquetry bureau à rognon Paris, circa 1875

the superstructure centered by a niche flanked by four drawers, the frieze with three frieze drawers.

Wear to the gilding to the banded edge of top; original brown leather lining with the usual scratches, dents and marks, most of the gilt tooling worn away; three keyhole escutcheons possibly replaced; age crack to veneer to front right corner with losses to veneer; the back central mount to frieze lacking; chips around edges of top of superstructure; each side of superstructure with an age crack overall the lines of construction with small losses to the veneer and some tearing; back right stringing at join with back right leg with lifting.
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Although unsigned the present model relates to a form of bureau with upper structure favored by the cabinet maker Théodore Millet. Moreover the finely executed cabinetry and bronze casting and chasing is in the same vein as celebrated Parisian ébénistes of the faubourg St. Antoine.