Writing table
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1750
Materials
Kingwood, sycamore, ormolu, leather, oak carcass
Measurements
78 x 105.5 x 64 cm
Place of origin
France
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Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 540781
Summary
A small kingwood and marquetry bureau plat, French, circa 1750. The serpentine top with a tooled leather surface and ormolu-mounted edge with shell motif at each corner, the friezes with floral marquetry and floral mounts, containing three drawers and opposing dummy drawers, standing on cabriole legs with foliate mounts trailing to sabots.