A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, ACAJOU MOUCHETE AND COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with a three-quarter balustrade gallery above a paneled frieze centered with a guilloche mount, the fall-front decorated with birds and flowering branches, opening to a green velvet-lined writing surface, two shelves and four drawers, the base with a drawer centered by a cartouche with a scrolled vine and putto mount, on four tapering fluted legs joined by a shaped undertier
56¾ in. (144 cm.) high; 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (37 cm.) deep
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, ACAJOU MOUCHETE AND COROMANDEL LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
ATTRIBUTED TO PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top with a three-quarter balustrade gallery above a paneled frieze centered with a guilloche mount, the fall-front decorated with birds and flowering branches, opening to a green velvet-lined writing surface, two shelves and four drawers, the base with a drawer centered by a cartouche with a scrolled vine and putto mount, on four tapering fluted legs joined by a shaped undertier
56¾ in. (144 cm.) high; 32½ in. (82.5 cm.) wide; 14½ in. (37 cm.) deep