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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE, in the manner of Riesener, in the Transitional style, with a rectangular liver-coloured top with pierced three-quarter brass gallery, the cylinder front centred by a figure of Athene and with marquetry panels emblematic of Astronomy and Mathematics, opening to reveal four small drawers and six pigeon-holes, with a pull-out leather-lined writing surface, the sides with naval trophies, the back centred by a seated female figure with a musical cherub and bacchic mask below, flanked by marquetry panels emblematic of Fire and Water, the frieze fitted with four drawers, on square-shaped tapering legs headed by foliate clasps, with pierced foliate sabots (restorations)

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE, in the manner of Riesener, in the Transitional style, with a rectangular liver-coloured top with pierced three-quarter brass gallery, the cylinder front centred by a figure of Athene and with marquetry panels emblematic of Astronomy and Mathematics, opening to reveal four small drawers and six pigeon-holes, with a pull-out leather-lined writing surface, the sides with naval trophies, the back centred by a seated female figure with a musical cherub and bacchic mask below, flanked by marquetry panels emblematic of Fire and Water, the frieze fitted with four drawers, on square-shaped tapering legs headed by foliate clasps, with pierced foliate sabots (restorations)
55in. (140cm.) wide; 46in. (117cm.) high; 29½in. (75cm.) deep

拍品专文

The present bureau is in the manner of the model supplied by Riesener to the Comtesse de Provence. The inspiration for its marquetry panels comes from the celebrated bureau du Roi Stanislas, also by Riesener and mow in the Wallace Collection, London, and also the bureau du Roi Louis XV, which was imitated by the most celebrated ébénistes in the mid-nineteenth century.