Hallidays (Fine Antiques) Ltd
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A French walnut veneered bureau plat
France
(
c. 1850
)
Dimensions:
47.00inch wide 28.00inch high 24.00inch deep (119.38 cm wide 71.12 cm high 60.96 cm deep) Description / ExpertiseA French 19th century walnut veneered bureau plat, the walnut quarter veneered top has a broad band of kingwood crossbanding edged with ormolu leafed pattern moulding with below two dummy drawers to either side of a single working drawer all in an exagerrated serpentine form with kingwood crossbanding to the drawers, the reverse similarly treated but all dummy drawers supported on four French S shaped veneered cabriole legs with gilded mounts heading the legs which terminate in ormolu sabots. C1850
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