Cylinder Desk In Marquetry From The Louis XV - Louis XVI Transition Period

Exceptional cylinder desk in plum veneer arranged in a herringbone pattern for the entire piece of furniture. The top is decorated with a vase in light and dark wood marquetry engraved with grooves, gadroons, rosettes and handles from which leafy branches garnished with flowers extend. The whole is framed with a composed and tinted net. The ogee of the cylinder is decorated with tinted half-cubes and colored wood. The cylinder, the bottom of which is plum herringbone, is decorated in the center with an entablature engraved in trompe l'oeil with gadroons, fluting, garlands, rosettes, apron and ball feet. A central shield separates thirteen musical instruments: tambourine, trumpet, guitar, musette, flute, violin, oboe, clarinet, hurdy-gurdy, drum, lyre...framed with scores. The whole is framed by a double tinted net with intersecting Greeks in the corners. By pulling the tray, the cylinder tilts back and reveals six curved drawers veneered with half-cubes framed with green-tinted nets. One of these drawers has its original inkwells. Two secret drawers are hidden behind the bottom drawers. A large storage drawer opening under the top, decorated with foliage, flowers and engraved foliage, is framed by a double green-tinted net with intersecting Greek motifs in the corners. The sides are covered with an entablature supporting a large vase decorated with flowered and tinted branches on which birds are placed, the whole engraved in trompe l'oeil and surrounded by a green tinted net. It rests on four curved veneered feet. the front legs have a finely hollowed chamfer and plated across.
18th century period.
Original lock, key and bronzes.
The desk is in perfect condition, very beautifully made with its period colors.
This piece of furniture is certainly made in Germany, but very close to the French border.