A NEAR PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID EBONY AND EBONISED 'BOULLE' BUREAUX PLATS
CIRCA 1860-80
Inlaid throughout in contre partie, each with a replaced red tooled-leather panel to the shaped top above two frieze drawers on slender cabriole legs, one with fragmentary and the other with two complete retail labels 'FROM/ A. JOSEPH/ IMPORTER OF/ WORKS OF ART, 27 NEW BOND ST.', various labels and indistinct pencil inscriptions, losses and repairs to veneers
30.1/2 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep and similar
A NEAR PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID EBONY AND EBONISED 'BOULLE' BUREAUX PLATS
CIRCA 1860-80
Inlaid throughout in contre partie, each with a replaced red tooled-leather panel to the shaped top above two frieze drawers on slender cabriole legs, one with fragmentary and the other with two complete retail labels 'FROM/ A. JOSEPH/ IMPORTER OF/ WORKS OF ART, 27 NEW BOND ST.', various labels and indistinct pencil inscriptions, losses and repairs to veneers
30.1/2 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) wide; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep and similar