Louis XV Style, Ormolu-Mounted, Bronze Dore, Bureau Plat, Writing Desk!

Gorgeous Antique Table, French Louis XV Style, Marble-Top, Gilt Metal Accents, 1800s, 19th Century! This antique table boasts a luxurious Louis XV style with a rectangular marble to...

Gorgeous 800's Antique French Empire, Bronze MTD, Leather Slides, Mahogany. Desk, Bureau!! Antique Bureau Desk, French Empire, Bronze MTD, Leathe...

Early 20th C. French Louis XV Style, Inlaid, Ormolu Mounted, Kingwood Secretary! Gorgeous Secretary, French Louis XV Style Inlaid Ormolu Mounted, Kingwood, Early 20th C!! This stun...

Gorgeous antique secretaire a abattant, desk, French Empire style, mahogany, gilt, 1800s, 19th century! This stunning French Empire style marble-top mahogany fall-front desk, 19th century, projecting frieze drawer, with gilt metal crossed sword pulls, turned column supports flanking the fall-front panel, opening to gilt embossed leather writing surface, mirrored interior gallery, over dual cabinet doors, opening to reveal three drawers, above lower apron drawer, approximately 56.5" height 37.25" width, 17" depth. Dominated by Greco-Roman models, the Empire style - spare, noble, massive - had a studied dignity consistent with Napoleonic majesty. The characteristic furniture types were a bit stiff but imposing: their flat surfaces and sharp corners, together with their lack of moldings, produced an effect of grandeur that was not without beauty as per Timothy Corrigan The Empire style was deliberately propagandistic, and embraced what was most monumental in ancient art as suitable analogies to the new French Empire. Napoleon imposed a tyrannical centralization on artistic production, decreeing that it would be subject to control from Paris and overseen by the architects Percier and Fontaine...

This fine Louis XV-style desk has a leather top framed by bronze borders. The writing desk is raised on cabriole legs headed by floral and leaf cast mounts that have finely finished ...

A Very Fine and Large French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Tulipwood Three-Drawer Bureau Plat - After a model by Joseph Baumhauer (died 1772) - Attributed to Paul Sormani (French-Italian 1817-1877). The serpentine shaped rectangular top enclosing a gilt tooled burgundy leather writing surface (worn) within a molded border above a long central drawer flanked by two drawers, with scrolled ormolu drawer-pulls, ormolu floral encadrements and acanthus corners co-raised on elegant cabriolet legs. (Unsigned - Unmarked). Circa: Paris, 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...

Louis XVI style (19th-20th century) gilt bronze mounted 3-drawer bureau plat desk having a center plaque depicting an allegorical putti scene with a gold embossed leather top.

Elegant Louis XV Style Flat Desk – Black Lacquered with Gilded Bronze Decoration This exceptional Louis XV-style Flat Desk is a refined example of classic craftsmanship and French e...