Ladies desk

Bureau de Dame, Louis XV, Paris. The desk rests on four tall, elegantly curved legs. On the front side of the desk two drawers. Keyholes and handles gilded, chased bronze. In a slightly bulbous, slanted writing tablet. Marquetry - graceful flowers - and leaf tendrils in rosewood, lighter and darker rosewood and green colored wood. The triangular side walls treated very similarly. In the middle of the writing tablet Maskaron and keyhole made of gilded bronze. The opened secretary shows desk with interior design, four larger and two smaller drawers and compartments. The frame is on the front side and the side walls are edged on the lower side with bronze bands that continue to run as border of the edges of the legs. On the four starting points of the legs rich bronze fittings in Rocailleshape.