A Louis XIV Writing Table Mid 17th Century Circa 1661-1665.

Rectangular centre writing table; tray and frize are veneered with kingwood on oak frame. -The rectangular top decorated with a harmonious geometric designs of kingwood highlighted by a double netting of boxwood, mixing cartouche polylobé and tetragone centered by
a star to twelve branches; two hearts are inserted on both sides completing the whole. The periphery of the plateau, flat and field is surrounded by a fram of incrustations of chevrons alternating successively bones and ebony. - The frize is also plated with kingwood on oak. On the front a long drawer with buttons slides under the tray. - The spacer is treated in accordance with the plate top, cartridges and star are in kingwood veneer on oak but here highlighted with a simple filet of boxwood. -The legs base consists of four twist spirally legs made of indigenous natural pear-wood and partially blackened, jointed by a waving X- sahped stretcher inlaid with cartouche and the central circle is inlaid with with a star. The twist spirally legs are on the circular feet base. Parisian work of the last third of the great century of Louis XIV period around the years 1661-1665. Dimensions Length 117cm, width 71cm and Height 77.5cm. Observations: Reminiscences of the early taste of the early 17th century still persist; massive base turned or feet in boulle but already the influence of the day of 7 August 1661 has already made its way. On the evening of Wednesday, August 17, 1661, Nicolas Fouquet displayed his munificence on the occasion of a party of too sumptuous where the powerful superintendent general of Finance invited the king and the Court in his castle of Vaux, south-east of Paris today Vaux-le-Vicomte. Fatal date for the superintendent but so beneficial to the decorative arts of the great century.