Bvrb Slope Desk, 18th Century

Bernard VAN RIESEN BURGH(BVRB) (1700-1760),

Ladies' sloping desk in veneered wood with an inlaid decoration of foliage and scrolls.
It opens with a curved flap held in place by two pulls revealing three sinuous drawers topped by a full-length niche.
The sliding top reveals a niche.
The flap is upholstered in red leather and decorated with gilded foliate scrolls.
Rests on cambered feet.
D'epoque Louis XV
Very rich ornamentation of gilded and chased bronzes decorated with foliate shells and lingotières.
All bronzes bear a crowned c.
It bears two stamps BVRB and JME .
It measures: 89 cm Height , 84 cm Width and 45 cm Depth .

LOUIS XV EPOQUE BUREAU DOS D'ÂNE Stamped by Bernard Van Risen-Burgh, known as BVRB, decorated with butt-wood marquetry on a satin-finish background and amaranth reserves, chased and gilded bronze ornamentation with a crowned C, of curved form, the flap revealing a leather-covered writing case, six drawers in two rows, a sliding shelf concealing a compartment, the cambered legs embellished with bronze sabots .

The crowned C hallmark was applied to works from 1745 to 1749 .

This desk stamped by Bernard van Risenburgh bears many similarities to the desk executed for the Dauphine Marie-Thérèse of Spain in 1745.
It is a rare example of the extreme quality of design and execution that made the reputation of this master, the only one, along with André Charles Boulle, whose works were distinguished in the catalogs of the period .