A German porcelain mounted ebonized bureau de dame possibly Dresden, circa 1875

the table fitted with three frieze drawers.

Overall wear and losses to gilt-highlighted decoration; please not there are extensive restorations to the ceramics in places; ; the putti to the top of each support flanking the mirror with restored bases with overpainting; one with three flowers lacking and with a loss now showing the metal rod; small chips to extremities of the flower heads and leaves; the left support with a replaced purple flower heads; some petals lacking to two flower heads; the right column with two petals lacking to one flower; the blue flower with losses to the stamen; restoration to the front right canted corner figural mount; back left leg cast slightly differently; brass metal joints at legs, stretchers and feet replaced for stability and strengthening; ebonized timber with the usual nicks, scratches and cracks consistent with age and use; top of two legs with restored cracks; porcelain panel to left frieze drawer with a hairline crack.
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