Object Description
Constructed in amboyna, with purpleheart banding with gilt bronze mounts; of elliptical form, with gently everted angles; rising from circular bronze collared fluted legs capped with gilt bronze toupie feet, and conjoined with swept stretcher issuing from a central circular boss; the frieze having a single blind drawer inset with a mythological scene of putti, and a running band of stylised Vitruvian scrolls; the platform having a tooled and gilt leather writing surface.
French, Circa 1875