18th Century French Lady's Secretaire Rosewood Veneer

Sloping flap secretary Baroque, Brunswick, around 1750, walnut and walnut root wood, plum and maple veneered on softwood corpus, 3 drawers, double curved corpus on ball feet, slant...

Secretary, Netherlands, baroque around 1780 walnut, symmetrically structured interior with rosewood pilasters rosewood, bottom with sliding shelf, claw feet shellac-wax polish ...

Cylinder bureau, Westphalia circa 1800, walnut and other fine woods veneered on oak, marquetry work, partly fire shaded, fluting and meander frieze, on the cylinder closure depiction...

Rococo secretary around 1760, cherry and walnut burl veneered on softwood, body with 2 large drawers, writing tablet and symmetrically divided drawers, internal ornaments and decorat...

A delightful Louis XVI secretary, built in oak and polished mahogany veneer, it is topped with a grey Saint-Anne des Pyrénées marble. It is equipped with a high drawer, offering a beautiful storage space, just below, it reveals a flap, discovering a space of a sobriety characteristic of Louis XVI Secretaries.  It consists of a large niche under which are seven drawers, six of which are of identical capacity, all in mahogany veneer. The flap is covered with original Camel coloured leather. At the bottom, it is equipped with two doors, housing a new storage compartment. These three front doors are equipped with cut brass lock entries.  This numerical inferiority is compensated by the presence of two pearled brass pull handles on the top drawer. The fluted uprights of this piece of furniture end in four tapered legs with gilded alloy shoes for the front legs. The back is a magnificent work of wood veneer entirely of the period. Period : 18th century Dimensions : Height : 130cm x Width : 64cm x Depth : 33cm In the 18th century, the ingenuity and talent of cabinetmakers were used to make secretaries with shapes as diverse as their names and with a great wealth of ornamentation, secretaries with a wide range of colours, and secretaries with a wide range of colours.  of ornamentation, desk secretaries, of which we find in the 1760 General Inventory of Crown Furniture wonderful specimens, such as cylinder secretaries, usually made of solid mahogany, the "bonheur du jour", travelling secretaries...

A late 18th century French provincial secretary made of cherry wood. Solidly cherrywood body standing on 6 feet with moulded sides, slight...

An impressive and unusually tall Venetian black walnut and burled walnut secretary. The mirrored top cabinet doors opening to reveal a multi dr...

Of unusually large scale; the upper section with arched cornice over a pair of wire-inset doors opening to fabric lined interior fitted with shelves; the lower section with a slant f...