Jean-françois Hache (grenoble 1730 - Grenoble 1796)

Ladies' desk with cylinder
Height: 108.5 cm Width: 116 cm Depth: 65 cm
Louis XV period

In walnut, molded in black; it has a cylinder topped with an ogee, opens with three drawers in the belt and rests on cambered legs with blackened felled edges. The acacia-veneered cylinder inlaid in the center with cubes in a rectangular panel with inset angles and engraved rosettes, connected, by means of two small burl discs to two oval satin medallions, the whole surrounded by a wide brown net. The top decorated with rectangular boxes outlined in black, the one in the center with an oval medallion of stained beech and burl spandrels, those at the ends with a light walnut diamond in a green net. The sides of the cylinder simulating a large burl disc, suspended by a ring, with the black net repeating the shape of the cylinder. Brass fittings.