A French Ormolu-Mounted, Pietra Dura, Mahogany and Partridge Wood Bureau Plat

The rounded rectangular top with ebony and holly stringing inset with a large pietra dura panel centered by three plaques, the central plaque depicting a bird on a flowering branch on an Arnese background flanked by two plaques depicting hunting scenes, surrounded by a border with simulated ribbon, the angles inlaid with shells, within a verde antico slip, above a frieze mounted with intertwined laurel branches, centred by a plaque of lapis lazuli with malachite angles, on stop fluted tapering legs on foliate sabots

Estimate:£12,000

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