BY ANTOINE MARIE SCHMIDT, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABBATTANT
BY ANTOINE MARIE SCHMIDT, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The inset grey-veined white marble top with three-quarter pierced gallery above six drawers and three faux drawers concealing a fall-front fitted with open compartments, drawers and a coffre fort, the stop-fluted columnar angles mounted with trailing husks terminating in tapering feet; thrice stamped 'A. M. SCHMIDT'
72 in. (183 cm.) high; 39 ½ in. (100 cm.) wide; 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

Provenance

Antoine Marie Schmidt, maître in 1784.

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