A LOUIS XVI AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT by Jean-François Leleu , the rectangular top lined with green morocco leather, the border tooled in gilt with key-pattern and an alternating design of putti and lyres, framed by boxwood fillets, the broad ormolu edge with a matted band and acanthus angle clasps, the panelled frieze lavishly mounted with entrelac bands framing naturalistic flowerheads encircled by laurel wreaths and divided by foliate bosses pierced to reveal the green-stained ground and incorporating the handles of the three drawers, the square tapering legs mounted with flutes capped by blocks panelled with foliate plaques and headed by massive crisply-cast foliate capitals with bead-and-reel collars, on stepped block feet, stamped on the upper edge of the left-hand drawer J.F. LELEU JME, the underside inscribed in ink Madame la Comtesse de Flahaut Mai 1-5.. 72in. (183cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 38½in. (98cm.) deep
A LOUIS XVI AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT by Jean-François Leleu , the rectangular top lined with green morocco leather, the border tooled in gilt with key-pattern and an alternating design of putti and lyres, framed by boxwood fillets, the broad ormolu edge with a matted band and acanthus angle clasps, the panelled frieze lavishly mounted with entrelac bands framing naturalistic flowerheads encircled by laurel wreaths and divided by foliate bosses pierced to reveal the green-stained ground and incorporating the handles of the three drawers, the square tapering legs mounted with flutes capped by blocks panelled with foliate plaques and headed by massive crisply-cast foliate capitals with bead-and-reel collars, on stepped block feet, stamped on the upper edge of the left-hand drawer J.F. LELEU JME, the underside inscribed in ink Madame la Comtesse de Flahaut Mai 1-5.. 72in. (183cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 38½in. (98cm.) deep
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