Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Secrétaire À Abattant

A Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted parquetry and marquetry fall-front Secrétaire with a marble top. Stamped to the carcass ‘10298’. This elegantly shaped Secrétaire is deco...

A Large and Very Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Mirror. This fine 'plum pudding' mahogany mirror has an arched pediment centred by a gilt-bronze basket issuing f...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Gueridon. This charming occasional table is of an especially useful Size. It has a white marble top with a brass gallery pierced wit...

A Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Centre Table. The table with a Villefranche de Conflent marble top of soft purple patterning against a white ground. Beneath the marbl...

This is a very good example of a late 18th century Louis XVI Secretaire a Abattant. The secretaire is crafted of solid walnut and is a generous 39.5" wide. The fall front when down r...

Abattant secretaire with 5 drawers and a folding door made of mahogany rosewood and fruitwood marquetry with bronze handles. Louis XVI style, Napoleon III era, France, 19th century.

The secrétaire à abbatant or fall front desk is nearly identical to the desk 5th President James Monroe brought back from France in 1797. These desks are ...

A Special Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Parquetry Secretaire a Abattant The shaped marble top above a long center frieze drawer with a large central bronze plaque of putti at play, the beautiful parquetry drop-down door centered with an elliptical gilt bronze panel depicting ”A Sacrifice to Love”, a classically dressed woman presenting an infant to Cupid, who stands on a pedestal, the plaque has ribbon tied flowers, the inside centered with a mirror surrounded by drawers and pigeonholes, the fall-front itself provides a black leather writing surface, the bottom doors opening to two more drawers and a shelf, the sides decorated with similar parquetry designs. This piece is a copy of the 18th century Secretaire by Jean-Henri Riesener which is presently in the Wallace Collection...