"Secretary For A Showcase, Napoleon III Era"
A cylinder secretary desk forming a display case at the top, opening with two doors and offering inside a small drawer, a garnet leather shelf inlaid with rosewood and palisander, end grain marquetry of foliage on the cylinder and drawers, cabriole legs, a brass gallery surmounted by a Spanish brocatelle marble, chased bronze mounts in the base, sabot and between, Parisian work attributed to the workshop of Gervais during 
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