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Material: Tortoise Shell
Small 19th Century French Boulle Bureau Plat
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality small late 19th century French Boulle inlaid bureau plat, having an inset leather top, brass inlay and tortoiseshell to the top, frieze and legs, gilded ormolu mounts, a single frieze drawer with a Bramah lock...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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Fantastic French 19th Century Boulle Desk with Bronze Mounts
Located in New Orleans, LA
This magnificent 19th century tortoiseshell Boulle desk features gorgeous bronze mounts and sculpted brass inlaid in the tortoise shell. The desk is created in the style of Louis XV ...
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Early 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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Bronze
Faux Tortoiseshell Partners Desk by Maitland-Smith
Located in Lake Worth, FL
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Offering one of our recent palm beach estate fine furniture acquisitions of a
1980s Faux Tortoiseshell...
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1980s Vintage Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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French Boulle Bureau Plat / Library Table, Late 18th Century
Located in Charleston, SC
Exceptional French Boulle bureau plat has the English feel of a library table with the four rams head mounted bronze fluted legs terminating in a br...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XIV Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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Brass, Bronze, Ormolu
Boulle Writing Desk
Located in New York, NY
Well-proportioned French black lacquer and Boulle writing desk with metal gallery raised back. Writing surface covered in leather, and drawers with...
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19th Century French Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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Tortoise Shell
French 19th Century Louis XV St. Ebony, Tortoiseshell, Brass, and Leather Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A stunning and unique French 19th century Louis XV st. ebony, tortoiseshell, brass, and leather Boulle st. desk. The desk is raised by four elegant cabriole legs with fine fitted fol...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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Brass, Ormolu
Flemish Baroque Marquetry Decorated Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Very fine 19th century Flemish ebony center or writing table having floral marquetry inlay inlaid bone insects on a walnut, ebony and faux tortoise background, bone and ebony pattern...
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1860s Belgian Baroque Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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French Bureau Plat of Ebony and Brass Inlay with Ormolu Mounts, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A Fine Bureau Plat in the Manner of André-Charles Boulle
Constructed in ebony with arabesque foliate cut brass inlays, with premiere-partie panels set with tortoiseshell grounds and brass inlay work, and having extensive fine quality ormolu mounts; rising from animal paw sabots, mounted with female masks at the shoulders; the apron housing three drawers, with faux drawers to the obverse, the central drawers set with a Bacchic mask issuing foliates, the platform of serpentine form, having a brass guard edge, and inset with a gilt tooled morocco leather. Stamped to the carcass ‘BF’ and ‘Gros’.
French, Circa 1870
Denise Ledoux-Lebard’s ‘Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siecle’. Published by les Editions de l’Amateur, 2000, lists a Benjamin Gros, whose enterprise amalgamated with the noted ebeniste Winckelsen in 1871; Gros had received an honourable mention for his ‘Boulle’ furniture in the Exposition Universelle in 1855.
Literature;
Le Mobilier Francais (qv)
Seymour de Ricci, Batsford 1929 ‘Louis XIV and Regence Furniture...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Tortoise Shell Desks and Writing Tables
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Brass, Ormolu
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