A Louis XVI secretaire stamped GILBERT

Very rare and beautiful little secretary veneered exotic and tinted native wood. It opens on the front with a flap. The flap discovered four small drawers veneered rosewood on amaranth and four lockers. The sides are divided into two panels bottom rosewood. Each panel is decorated with a landscape at the "Antique" with colonnades, trees, river and swans very characteristic work of this maker.
Framed front panels by molding molten bronze écoinçonnée rosettes. Amounts cut sides extended by right feet. Low cross to central deck. Above royal red marble Rance. Falls, rosettes, apron, quatrefoils and escutcheons in ormolu.

Louis XVI
Stamp André Louis GILBERT, received master in Paris in 1774

dimensions:
Height: 127 cm
Width: 63 cm
Depth: 35 cm