Office Slope Or Donkey In Marquetry, Napoleon III Period

Slope desk or donkey back in marquetry, curves and counter-curves, it opens to a flap, revealing an interior in sycamore or speckled maple. The flap forming a writing desk trimmed with burgundy leather with a golden vignette. Two small drawers with inlaid fronts, a magnifying glass of tuba, colored wooden nets and a niche decorate the interior. Large drawer on the bottom. Beautiful marquetry in reserves on three sides, flowers and foliage, arabesques, in wood of various colors on a black wooden background, the rest of the furniture is clad in rosewood. Rich decoration of chased and gilded bronze such as: falls, hooves, gallery and borders of the flap and the two high angles. In beautiful condition, varnish with revised pad, bronze and ttoie and changed leather. Beautiful furniture typical of the Second Empire.