A gilt-bronze-mounted amaranth, tulipwood and parquetry bureau plat stamped Montigny JME twice Louis XVI, circa 1775 with a gilt-bronze banded tooled leather top above a pull-out tooled leather writing slide on each side above three frieze drawers opposing dummy drawers mounted with a gilt-bronze border with stylised Greek key motif and laurel leaf escutcheons within a further band of ribbon-tied reeds with similarly inlaid sides, each stile with a projecting block applied with a gilt-bronze patera each side with an acanthus leaf cast mount on square tapering legs applied with berried laurel swags on gilt-bronze sabots, the inside of the central drawer with two ink inscribed labels one with the number 10611 the other with 469,1103222 78.5cm. high., 129.5cm. wide, 65cm. deep; 2ft. 7in., 4ft. 3in., 2ft. 1½in.
A gilt-bronze-mounted amaranth, tulipwood and parquetry bureau plat stamped Montigny JME twice Louis XVI, circa 1775 with a gilt-bronze banded tooled leather top above a pull-out tooled leather writing slide on each side above three frieze drawers opposing dummy drawers mounted with a gilt-bronze border with stylised Greek key motif and laurel leaf escutcheons within a further band of ribbon-tied reeds with similarly inlaid sides, each stile with a projecting block applied with a gilt-bronze patera each side with an acanthus leaf cast mount on square tapering legs applied with berried laurel swags on gilt-bronze sabots, the inside of the central drawer with two ink inscribed labels one with the number 10611 the other with 469,1103222 78.5cm. high., 129.5cm. wide, 65cm. deep; 2ft. 7in., 4ft. 3in., 2ft. 1½in.
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