Object Description
A Napoleon III Gilt-Bronze Mounted and Brass Inlaid Ebonised Parquetry Secretaire en Pente by Alphonse Tahan,
Engraved to the lock plate ‘TAHAN / Fr DE L’EMPEREUR’
The top with a three-quarter gallery above a fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior including three short drawers and a tooled leather writing surface, the fall-front with a brass cartouche engraved with a count’s crest with the motto ‘NISI DOMINUS CUSTODIERIT’.
France, circa 1875.