BY EMMANUEL-ALFRED (DIT ALFRED II) BEURDELEY, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY WEISWEILER

The rectangular brocatelle jaune de Jura marble top above a scrolled-acanthus and musical putti-mounted frieze fronted by a spring-activated drawer, the fall-front centred with a gilt-lacquer panel decorated with figures beside palm trees, enclosing a gilt-tooled leather writing-surface and an ebony-veneered interior fitted with four drawers and central recess, the angles mounted with basket-bearing caryatids, the sides with rectangular lacquer panels of landscapes, the lower section with similarly lacquered sides and central drawer fronted by a festooned urn, on fluted front legs and square panelled rear legs, joined by a pierced interlaced stretcher, on tapering frond-cast feet, the reverse branded A BEURDELEY A PARIS three times
51½ in. (131 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep.

'A Private Collection: Volume II', sold Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 184.
Private Collection, Ohio; sold Christie's, New York, 14-15 April 2011, lot 156.

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