Louis XVI Gilt Bronze and Mahogany Bureau a Cylinder

This is a nicely inlaid gilt bronze marquetry table after the model of Adam Weisweller. Wonderful proportions and offers a multitude of uses fro...

This is an unusual English Regency mahogany knee hole desk, the top with leather inset, above a frieze drawer flanked by a pair of pilasters with brass capitals and collars, situated...

This is a beautifully articulated and unusual English Regency mahogany chiffonier secretaire. The top section containing two shelves with round b...

This is a Classic George III mahogany slant top desk. The slant front drops to reveal a series of small drawers and document compartments over ...

This is a good quality pair of mahogany Louis XVI style cabinets with a breccia marble top surrounded by a pierced brass gallery. Below is a frieze drawer over antique book spines...

This is a sophisticated 19th century Louis XVI mahogany style end table. The oval Breccia marble top, with gilt bronze band is positioned over a deep frieze containing gilt bronze sw...

Very nice desk cylinder in mahogany and bronze louis XVI style executed by PELLAET 31 rue Caumartin PARIS . A very good cabinet maker in this time the desk cylinder has three belt d...

Louis XVI Style Cylindrical Bureau with slides, leather writing surface, fitted interior and marble top.

A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted marquetry cylinder bureau. Stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts 'PB'. The top of Sarrancolin marble above a tambour with a central mount depicting Minerva. The marquetry depicting allegories of Geography and Astronomy. The interior has a green-leather covered pull out writing slide below an arrangement of drawers and cubby-holes. The back and sides intricately inlaid with marquetry of military and Maritime trophies. The sides with pullout leather-lined slides. The kneehole with a frieze drawer and three short drawers to the sides. France, Circa 1880. This desk is inspired by the bureau de roi, begun by Jean-François Oeben and completed by Jean-Henri Riesener for Louis XV in 1769 (now at Versailles) featuring similar marquetry panels, as well as a bureau à cylindre, also by Riesener, formerly thought to have been made for King Stanislas of Poland, but now identified as being supplied to the comte d'Orsay (now in the Wallace Collection). The present lot is however most similar in form to a secrétaire à cylindre...

A Rare Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cylinder Bureau. By François Linke, Paris. Index Number 100. France, Circa 1890. The top with three quarter pierced gallery. The cylinder front centred by a gilt-bronze foliate framed oval decorated with floral marquetry and a harp and books representing lyric poetry. Flanked by twin-light gilt-bronze candelabra. The roll-top enclosing an arrangement of four small drawers and five small compartments above a gilt-tooled green leather writing surface. The frieze fronted by a central drawer with spring-loaded secret release and faced with a relief-cast plaque of cloudborne putti representing the arts. The flanking drawers with gilt-bronze acanthus cast handles and fruiting cornucopia...

Although of kidney shape, this desk is more substantial than generally found in such a form. The top has a pierced brass gallery enclosing a fanning kingwood veneer. The leather slide-out writing surface is enclosed by a pair of tambour shutters which, when rolled back, reveal small drawers. The desk is flanked by three curved drawers...

An imposing Louis XVI style roll top desk in beautifully figured mahogany and having finely chased and gilded bronze mounts; the green marble top with a bronze gallery above three lo...