IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The Sarrancolin marble top with a pierced three-quarter gallery, above a tambour with a central mount depicting Minerva, flanked by a panel to each side, one emblematic of Geography, the other of Astronomy, enclosing a green-leather lined pull-out slide, five pigeon-holes and four short drawers with diamond parquetry, the back inlaid with military and naval trophies flanking a central applique, the sides similarly decorated above a leather-lined slide, the front centred by a knee-hole with a frieze drawer and three short drawers with floral marquetry, on cabriole legs headed by foliate-cast clasps with pierced sabots

46¹⁄₂ in. (118 cm.) high; 56¹⁄₂ in. (143.5 cm.) wide; 26¹⁄₂ in. (67.5 cm.) deep

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