A very rare and beautiful Louis XV gilt bronze mounted parquetry kingwood and rosewood table à ecrire, the shaped rectangular top with cube parquetry within a cartouche-shaped panel surrounded by floral and foliate inlay, with gilt bronze moulding with three quarter gallery above a central front leather lined writing slide with key, above a feather-banded and floral and foliate panelled frieze, the sides similary decorated, each with a frieze drawer with diamond-shaped escutcheons, with scrolled foliate angle mounts continuing down the cabriols legs terminating in foliate sabots.

Paris, date circa 1755

Height 74 cm, length 82 cm, depth 52 cm.