Object Description
A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Secrétaire Cabinet With A Marble Top by Maison Vervelle Audot Successeur.
Signed to the lockplate: ‘ Mon Vervelle Audot succ Paris / 1 rue Nve Montmorency Feydeau’.
This fine cabinet has a rectangular white marble top above an angular frieze and eight drawers. Each drawer front has fine quarter sawn veneer and boxwood stringing and is centred by elaborate gilt-bronze pieced foliate
escutcheons.
The drawer fronts to the second, third and fourth drawers are false and open to reveal a fall front, with a leather writing surface and a fitted interior with a framed recess, two short drawers and a long drawer. The cabinet has chamfered uprights headed by finely cast gilt-bronze foliate volutes and is raised on a plinth base with a shaped apron.