A Dutch secretaire à abattant Holland, Louis XVI, circa 1785

A Dutch secretaire à abattant Holland, Louis XVI, circa 1785

A Dutch secretaire à abattant
Holland, Louis XVI, circa 1785
Veneered with sycamore, tulip-, purple- and boxwood
146 x 97 x 40 cm
€ 52.500
The shaped and moulded marble top above a frieze-drawer, the fall-front with green leather-lined writing surface, the friezedrawer and the sides of the frieze with a marquetry of scrolls with
a flower; the fallfront, the two lower doors and the sides with flower head filled trellis, the medallion in the centre of the fall-front with a marquetry of two lovebirds enclosed by musical
instruments, the canted angles decorated with a flower head, laurel leaves tied by a ribbon, and fausses flutes; the fitted interior with pigeonholes above a central door with
a marquetry of flower branches flanked by secret detachable ‘column’ and ‘their base’ and four drawers with trellis marquetry, on straight legs.