Early 19th century French Mahogany Empire Desk

Elegant William IV writing table, top with an inset black leather writing surface framed with burlwood veneer and gilt bronze edge, on a giltwood base with a black leather foot rest...

Superb model with a deeply paneled frieze, having geometric fruitwood inlay, containing three drawers. The strong disc-turned legs connected by shaped side stretchers and wrought iro...

Very unusual and rare small Bureau Plat, the frieze containing one drawer, finished all around and freestanding. Italian or possibly of Maltese Orig...

Strikingly decorative Venetian table of highly unusual and rare form, early 17th century. The oblong molded top enhanced with gilt decoration, above a double frieze with conforming ...

An extremely handsome and impressive French 19th century Empire st. mahogany and ormolu executive desk. At the frieze is a central wider drawer flanked by smaller drawers at each sid...

A exceptionally rare Period French Empire (1804-1814) walnut bureau a cylindre. Exquisitely hand-crafted in France, most likely Parisian work, dating to the early 19th century, the large antique cylinder desk...

A very fine and large French 19th century Louis XV style ormolu-mounted mahogany and kingwood three-drawer bureau plat attributed to Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). The shaped rectangular top enclosing a gilt tooled brown leather writing surface within a molded border above a long central drawer enclosing a fine modeled mask of Hercules wearing the Nemean lion pelt centered by flat cast encadrements and rosewood veneered a quatre faces flanked by two short drawers with reticulated escutcheons of scantly clad frolicking putti and doves over gadrooned "C" scrolls, trellis patterned panels on a stylized shell within similarly framed encadrements raised on elegant cabriole legs surmounted by bearded satyr masks ending in acanthus case hairy paw feet beneath sides centering bacchic masks. Lock mechanism stamped W S M, 6068, a key (lacking skeleton key), and 148. Veuve Paul Sormani Et Fils was the widow of the highly esteemed furniture maker Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). After his death around 1877 she and her son took over the management of the company continuing the tradition of producing fine French furniture of the highest calibre. An escutcheon and several mounts were examined on the reverse, and each was found to have the bronze master model initials "SJ:. Blue chalk inscription on underside Glle 117, Paris, circa 1880. Paul Sormani (1817-1877): Born in Venice, Paul Sormani set up in Paris in the middle of the 19th century. He specialized in creating furniture and works of art and was known for his high quality reproductions of Louis XV and XVI furniture...

!9th century French Belle Epoque writing table with gilt ormolu mounts on the feet corners and apron. The top is a single rose and cream-colored ma...