bureaux plat - desks
Bureau plat. A flat-topped writing table originating in France in the late 17th century. The top is usually inset with leather and there are small drawers in the frieze or apron. The form is usually elaborately veneered and inlaid with marquetry and fitted with high quality brass or ormolu mounts. Many versions, often ebonised, were made during the Victorian period in the Rococo style, and continue to be made in the same style, at the present time.
23 item(s) found:
A French late 19th century, Louis XVI style, walnut bureau plat, the rectangular top inset with leather, the front and back with a knee-hole flanked by seven drawers with brass banding, on tapering legs terminating in brass caps.…
A Lois XV style walnut bureau plat, the serpentine leather inset top with stylised floriated banding above a frieze drawers, having a shaped apron decorated, raised on cabriole legs with gilt metal mounts and sabots
A Louis XVI style kingwood bureau Plat, the serpentine leather inset top above three frieze drawers and raised on cabriole legs, the whole with gilt bronze masks mounts and sabots 168 cm wide, 96 cm deep, 83 cm high
A fine French 19th century Louis XV style walnut and tulipwood banded bureau plat, the shaped top inset with leather over three frieze drawers on gilt metal mounted cabriole legs. 145 cm x 76 cm x 79 cm
A French Louis XV style kingwood bureau plat, the serpentine rectangular top inset gilt tooled leather top, above three drawers with cast ormolu handles, on cabriole legs with ormolu sabots.
A Louis XVI style Victorian bureau plat. Possibly a London maker, the top with inset leather ormolu banding, the frieze two drawers on tapering supports. 116 cm. Wide. Height 71 cm. 61 cm. Deep
A French late 19th century, Louis XVI style, ormolu-mounted walnut double-sided bureau plat, the rectangular top centred by a leather writing surface, the front and back with a knee-hole flanked by seven drawers, on tapering fluted legs and square sabots.…
A French 19th century ormolu-mounted cherry wood bureau plat, the rectangular top inset with a brown leather writing surface, the front with two frieze drawers mounted with scrolling foliate handles, on cabriole legs. Width 170 cm. Depth 82 cm . Height 74.…
A magnificent French kingwood bureau-plat, supported on cabriole legs, fitted with three drawers and having fine ormolu mounts and tooled leather inset. Height 78 cm
A fine quality Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted bureau-plat, French, 150 x 80 x 80 cm
A fine French 19th century Louis XV style kingwood bureau plat cross banded with frieze drawers on cabriole supports with ormolu sabots. Width 78 cm. Length 137 cm. Height 73 cm
An outstanding French Louis XV style walnut and tulipwood banded bureau plat, the shaped top with floral marquetry of fruit and olive wood. Over three frieze drawers on gilt metal mounted cabriole legs. 102 cm. X 61 cm. X 75 cm
A fine French Louis XVI style kingwood bureau plat. Rectangular form with inset leather top, three frieze drawers on tapering supports with ormolu feet. Provenance: lady Monahan's collection, Monday 24th May, 1982. Width 63 cm. Length 110 cm. Height 75 cm
A fine quality antique English ormolu mounted kingwood bureau plat in the Louis XV style, 76 x 158 x 80 cm, the three drawer desk finely inlaid with kingwood and fruitwood, fitted with Bramah locks by J.T. Needs, Piccadilly, London
A Louis XVI style marble, kingwood and gilt metal mounted bureau Plat, the shaped Spanish brocatelle marble top above a satinwood inlaid, crossbanded apron with foliate giltmetal mounts, raised on cabriole legs and sabots, 147 x 80 x 85 cm
A French mahogany bureau plat, with inset leather inlay top, frieze drawers on turned tapering supports
A Louis XIV style ebonised and gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat 76 x 131 x 82.5 cm
Good 19th century Continental Kingwood bureau plat with marquetry and gilt metal mounts
A Louis XV style gilt metal mounted walnut bureau plat, by Howard & Sons, Berners St, 19th century, the chamfered rectangular tooled leather inset top surmounted by a three-quarter gallery edged shelf raised on scroll supports, having two frieze drawers,…
French Louis XV style bureau plat desk with fine gilt ormolu mounts and veneers in Kingwood and pallisander (rosewood), with two full length drawers and false drawers to the reverse, having the original tan and tooled gilt embossed leather top
A fine and elegant French Louis XVI style faded mahogany and pale brown, gilt-edged Morocco calf leather bureau plat desk, of good design and proportions, simply decorated with typical French Neoclassical 'palmette' escutcheons,…
A well-proportioned 19th century French Napoleon III period, Louis XV style faded tulipwood and gilt brass mounted bureau plat desk of Parisian quality, the serpentine-shaped top fitted with an old gilt-edged red leather.…
A large and important late 19th century French Empire style walnut and gilt brass-mounted bureau plat desk, a slide-out extension at each end, double-sided and fitted throughout with its original gilt-edged brown leather, with its original escutcheons,…