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Fine 19th Century French Neoclassical Style Amboyna & Gilt Bronze Mounted Writing Table (1 of 11)
Loveday Antiques
Flag of United KingdomHertfordshire, UK
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Fine 19th Century French Neoclassical Style Amboyna & Gilt Bronze Mounted Writing Table

REF: 2883 / LA410689
£12,750
€14,894
$16,038
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Description
This is a superb amboyna writing desk having distinctive ormolu mounts to the frieze shares some of the best characteristics seen in the French Empire and British Regency periods, including which is rarely seen in furniture of the period the tapering to the square legs being confined to only three sides. With inlaid ebonised banding, the gilt tooled leather inset top with a conforming pair of inset lateral slides, enclosed by a gilt bronze moulded surround with a diaper-filled lozenge panel design. The frieze with three drawers together with urn and oil lamp shaped mounts, conforming to the rear, the short side friezes with swag mounted medallions having drapery and trophy motifs, raised on tapered square legs surmounted by anthemion inlay and ending in ormolu cappings. This bureau plat - writing table is of exhibition quality with the finest cuts of amboyna used along with extremely delicate gilt bronze mounts, a very fine example.
measurements
Height:
76 cm
Width:
131 cm
Depth:
72 cm
declaration
Loveday Antiques has clarified that the Fine 19th Century French Neoclassical Style Amboyna & Gilt Bronze Mounted Writing Table (LA410689) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1880-1900
condition
Writing table is of exhibition quality with the finest cuts of amboyna used along with extremely delicate gilt bronze mounts, a very fine example.
location
This Fine 19th Century French Neoclassical Style Amboyna & Gilt Bronze Mounted Writing Table is located in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom