Object Description
The exquisitely crafted Swedish Empire birch and birds eye maple wood secretaire chest of substantial proportions and heavy build quality, having a moulded cornice above a shallow drawer with secretaire drawer beneath, the fall opening to reveal an extensive ebonised fitted interior comprising of twenty fitted drawers and one central lockable cupboard, the carcass with three further drawers to the base each with ebonised lozenge escutcheons, the lower being bombe shaped, flanked by ebonised pillars and raised on block feet and surviving from the second quarter of nineteenth century Sweden.