Carrara Marble Secretaires

Small Secretary In Boulle Marquetry, Napoleon III Period Napoleon 3" Beautiful and elegant little lady's secretary in brass boule marquetry on an ebony veneer background. Marquetry o...

Secretary from France from the Directoire period. This piece is made of solid hand "hewned " mahogany with a striking figuring on the drop front and sides. It has been finished with ...

Secretary, drop front desk, from France, of Mahogany in the Louis XVI style. This cabinet is finished in a lustrous museum quality ebonized French polish. There are two lower doors w...

Secretary, drop front desk, French, in the Louis XVI style. This cabinet is finished in a lustrous museum quality ebonized French polish. There are four exterior dovetailed drawers w...

Napoleon III secretary in Boulle tortoiseshell marquetry and brass, patterned with interlacing, scrolls and foliage. Treated in false week : facade with 7 drawers : four drawers and a flap simulating three drawers. Theater with three drawers, two small and one large. Rich ornamentation of gilded bronzes with multiple ingot molds, caryatids and falls, rosettes. Top in white Carrara marble. Depth of working insert : 38 cm This elegant, finely crafted piece is ideal for an office or hallway. It has been renovated to a very high standard. ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE (1642-1732) king's cabinetmaker Designated to the king by Colbert as "the most skilful in his trade", Boulle designed a large number of bronze and marquetry pieces, making him the first great cabinetmaker of 17th-18th-century French furniture. The creativity and richness of his furniture contributed to Versailles' reputation in this field. From 1672 onwards, Boulle designed all kinds of furniture for Louis XIV, his family and the Court, and his name is inseparable from the copper and tortoiseshell marquetry that made him such a success: the famous "Boulle marquetry". Although he was not the inventor, he created a new process for cutting the same motif from these two materials. The result is two panels: the "part" and the "counterpart". The first is copper on tortoiseshell, the second tortoiseshell on copper. In 1684-1692, the Grand Dauphin commissioned Boulle marquetry for the panelling and parquet flooring in his Versailles cabinet, which disappeared in the 18th century. Another major Boulle innovation was to apply bronzes to his furniture to protect the most sensitive parts. Mascarons, claws, friezes, foliage... invade consoles, desks and cabinets. Bronzes are also found on clocks, cartels, candelabras, inkwells... Boulle also designed large flat desks on legs...

Secretary, French, in the Louis XVI style made of mahogany that has been ebonized and finished in a lustrous French polish. The elegant and functional ...

A pretty smaller-scale French 19th century drop-front secretaire, the rosewood case with intricate boxwood neo-classical inlay to two doors which open to a fitted satinwood interior ...

Napoleon III Secretary in Boulle style marquetry in the Queen style composed of four-leaf leaves and embedded brass shamrocks. Beautiful ornamentation of gilded bronzes with high and...

Napoleon III secretary, Boulle marquetry in the queen style inlaid with brass and mother of pearl stars, gilt bronze fittings, Carrara marble on...

Dramatic ebonized commode or chest of drawers featuring an escritoire or secretaire drop down writing table. Made by Maison Jansen in the Louis...

Louis XV style secretary in faux weekly (fake 7 drawers style) made in Boulle Marquetry with a doucine, with brass marquetry threads and uprights with Queen style inlay decoration wi...

Stunning Napoleon III secretary in Boulle tortoiseshell marquetry and brass, patterned with interlacing, scrolls and foliage. Treated in false w...