Early 19th Century French Black Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
An impressive early 19th Century French Louis XVI style, black lacquered bureau plat. With is original leather top and bronze mounts.
Bronze
French Jacques Adnet Brass Mounted Black Lacquered Writing Desk
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Queens, NY
French 1940s brass mounted black lacquered bureau plat /writing desk with tan leather inset top above a range of frieze drawers (attributed to Jacques Adnet).
Brass
$2,960Sale Price|45% Off
Black Lacquered Ormolu Desk / Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
French Louis XV writing desk featuring cabriole legs, exquisite ormolu, and a glossy black lacquered top. The elegant gilt bronze fittings protect the edges and at the same time acce...
Brass
Expressionist Rococo Berlin Deko Bureau-Plat/Desk, Lacquered in Saffron Yellow
By Bruno Paul
Located in Petershagen, DE
This Berlin Deko Bureau-Plat represents the evolution of women's writing furniture from the private intimacy of the boudoir to the representational space of the salon. Designed as a ...
Maple
Karges French Louis XV Chinoiserie Cream Lacquered Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
By Karges Furniture
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous French Louis XV Chinoiserie style writing desk or bureau plat desk By Karges USA, Circa 1980s Cream lacquered walnut, with hand-painted Asian scenes, ornate bronze ormo...
Brass
French Louis XV Black Lacquer Bronze Figural Ormolu Bureau Plat Writing Desk
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Louis XV Style Black Lacquer Bronze Figural Ormolu Bureau Plat Writing Desk.
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French bureau plat featuring a high-gloss black" lacquer like" painted finish, bronze ormolu, black leather top and two drawers.
Bronze, Ormolu
$8,281 / item
Outstanding Pair of Red Laquered Bureau Plat Desks
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A wonderful pair of French red laquered partners bureau platt desk, with outstanding ormolu mounts, three opening drawers to one side and dummy drawers to the opposite side, dark bro...
Oak
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Desk, Rosewood and Ormulu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Antique Louis XV style bureau plat writing desk, rosewood and Ormulu mounts, raised on cabriole legs. Tooled leather top. Dimensions: 43” W x 31.5” H x 25.5” D Side drawers (2): ...
Bronze
Baker Furniture Egyptian Revival Rosewood Leather Top Executive Bureau Plat Desk
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous Egyptian Revival, Neoclassical, or Empire style executive writing desk or bureau plat desk By Baker Furniture USA, Late 20th Century Rosewood, with embossed leather top...
Brass
20th Century antique Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Piano White
Located in Berlin, DE
Bureau plat writing table in the style of Louis XV style, silvered bronze fittings.
Beech
20th Century antique Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Piano Black
Located in Berlin, DE
Bureau plat writing table in the style of Louis XV style, silvered bronze fittings.
Beech
A Black Lacquered and Ormolu Mounted Bureuplat, 19th Century
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
A Black Lacquered and Ormolu Mounted Bureuplat, 19th Century Description: An exceptionally fine black lacquered and ormolu mounted bureau plat in the style of Jacques Dubois, the to...
Bronze
Black Lacquered Louis XV Style Writing Table
Located in Kent, Dover
A French Louis XV style black lacquered writing table or bureau plat. With three working drawers, including original key and blind drawers at the front.
Kingwood
Unavailable
H 27.96 in W 29.53 in D 16.15 in
French 19th Century Japanese Lacquer Bureau Plat in Napoleon III Style
By Napoléon III
Located in Vilnius, LT
The top is inset with black Japanese lacquer. The Bureau plat cabriole legs is garnish with gilt bronze.
Bronze
Regency Lacquer Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Come view this in our Canonbury antiques showroom just north of London in Potters Bar, Herts. Stunning Regency style desk with a black lacquer finish - Love this look at the moment,...
French black lacquered two-drawer bureau plat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French black lacquered two-drawer bureauplat with leather top and bronze dore mounts. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.CONNOISSEURANTIQUES.COM
Louis XV Style Lacquered and Gilt Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Fine, French produced Louis XV style bureau plat, gilt embossed with lacquered frame. With original key.
Bronze
Black Lacquer Bureau Plat
By Auffray Furniture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Elegant black lacquer Bureau Plat with brass trim and pulls.
Louis XVI Style Black Lacquer Bureau Plat
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Louis XVI style black lacquer bureau plat with brass inlay, gilt bronze hardware and a leather top, circa 1920.
Brass, Ormolu
Antique Louis XV Style Bronze Mounted Black Lacquer Bureau Plat
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Antique Louis XV style bronze mounted black lacquer bureau plat, circa 1920's. With nice quality bronze mounts, brass inlay, leather top and hand dove tailed drawer construction.
Brass, Bronze
1940s French Black Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
An early 20th Century Louis XV style black lacquered writing desk. This desk features brass/bronze ormolu, three drawers and a cognac leather top.
Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
Louis XV Style Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Red leather top, three-drawer 1950s Italian bureau plat with gilt bronze accents.
Superb French Black Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Wonderful French three-drawer bureau plat with silvered bronze mounts. Having foliate and fauna inlays, finely cast bronze mounts and hardware, and tooled black leather top.
Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
19th century Louis XVI style desk newly lacquered in black with brass wraparound trim and original leather top.
Brass
A Louis XV style Lacquered Bureau Plat
Located in Buchanan, MI
'Very nice Louis XV style Burear Plat with very nice shaped top covered in blind tooled leather. Over all mounted in gilt metal mounts
Metal
Louis XV Style Black Lacquer Bureau Plat with Ormolu Mounts
Located in New York, NY
The shaped wood top set within a gilt-metal surround with cabochon mounts to the corners; over a frieze fitted with three short drawer opposed by simulated drawers fronts; raised on ...
Ormolu
Sold
H 30.5 in W 65.5 in D 29 in
Louis XV Style Orange Lacquer Bureau Plat / Baker Furniture Collector's Edition
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Dallas, TX
an orange lacquered Louis XV reproduction writing desk / bureau plat by Baker Furniture Collector's Edition reproduced from a French original circa 1720, with rich leather top / writ...
Bronze
Antique French Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French black lacquer Bureau Plat with dore bronze accents and brown leather top.
Bronze
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Westwood, NJ
Louis XV style black lacquered bureau plat with bronze hardware and gold tooled inset red leather top, the frieze fitted with three drawers, the reverse with mock drawers.
French Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
18thC French style black lacquer bureau plat or desk with original inset leather top and bronze mounts.
Lacquer
Sold
H 30.25 in W 48.25 in D 24.5 in
Signed French Directoire Style Ebonized Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat Desk
By Maison Jansen
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a stunning signed Maison Jansen bronze mounted ebonized lacquer bureau plat with a black leather top with gold embossed trim.
Bronze
Sold
H 29.93 in W 51.19 in D 30.71 in
19th Century Régence Napoleon III Ebonized Desk/Bureau Plat Stamped Gros/Paris
By Benjamin Gros
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent and rare French 19th century Napoleon III ebonized black lacquer Bureau plat or writing desk made in the Régence/Louis XV style made by Benjamin Gros/Paris, ca. 1855.
Bronze
Antique French Style Lacquered Chinoiserie Bureau Plat Desk
By Drexel
Located in London, GB
A stunning antique French style lacquered chinoiserie bureau plat desk. This was made in the USA by Drexel, it dates from around the 1970’s.
Wood, Lacquer
1940s Louis XVI Style Bureau Plat in Black Lacquer
By Nordiska Kompaniet
Located in Doylestown, PA
A chic 1940s Louis XVI style bureau plat in black lacquer with inset light brown tooled leather top and brass drawer pulls and sabots.
Wood
Lacquered Louis XVI-Style, Leather-top Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
Lacquered Louis XVI-Style, Leather-top Bureau Plat/Desk
Louis XV Petit Bureau Plat
Located in Stamford, CT
A French Louis XV period, black lacquer petit bureau plat with Chinoiserie decoration and gilt metal mounts.
Lacquer
A Black Lacquered French Louis XV-style Bureau-Plat
Located in New York, NY
A black lacquered French Louis XV-style bureau-plat with three drawers in apron, each having contrasting brass stringing and cast bronze pulls and escutcheons, the top with brass mol...
Brass, Bronze
French Louis XV Black Lacquered Leather Top Bureau Plat Desk
Located in West Hartford, CT
Exquisite French Louis XV-style black lacquered desk, a masterpiece of 18th-century design. This elegant piece features a sleek, ebony-like finish that accentuates its graceful curve...
Bronze
Karges Louis XV bureau plat
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Louis XV style chinoiserie decorated bureau plat with a red leather top, raised chinoiserie decorations and brass mounts, circa 1980.
Brass
Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
A sturdy and substantial 19th century French bureau plat, Louis XV style, black lacquer with gilt bronze mounts, keyhole eschuchions, and gilt decoration / detail, tan leather writin...
Bronze
French Directoire Style Black Lacquer and Brass Bureau Plat
Located in Danville, CA
Elegant black lacquer Writing Desk with Brass bordered top, casters, and drawer hardware. One large central drawer and two smaller side drawers are concealed in the apron. Hardware...
Brass
Vintage desks and writing tables span centuries of design. The writing table came first, a simple surface built for correspondence, while the drawered desk followed as record-keeping at home and in the office grew more demanding.
Styles to Know
Any desk at least 20 years old falls under this broader vintage category. If you want a tapered-leg, mid-century look specifically, browse mid-century modern desks; Louis XVI and Art Deco secretary desks bridge the writing-table and desk forms. A vintage table lamp adds task lighting to either.
How to Choose the Right Vintage Piece
Writing tables often carry little to no storage of their own, so a separate file cabinet or desk organizer may be worth planning for, alongside a close look at the surface dimensions against the space available. Each piece comes from a vetted 1stDibs seller, with era, designer and condition detailed, and every purchase is covered by the 1stDibs Promise.
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