BY JEAN-FRANCOIS DUBUT, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE BUREAU PLAT
BY JEAN-FRANCOIS DUBUT, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular top inset with a gilt-tooled tan leather writing surface above three frieze drawers reversing to faux drawers flanked by drapery-swagged angles, the sides with conformingly lined leather slides, on square tapering legs terminating in square sabots, stamped 'J. F. DUBUT' twice and 'JME' four times, partly remounted
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 57 in. (145 cm.) wide; 27 ¼ in. (69 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Jean-François Dubut, maître in 1760

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