Lot Essay
Martin Carlin, maître in 1766.
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STAMPED TWICE M.CARLIN AND JME ONCE
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU A PUPITRE
Stamped twice M.CARLIN and JME once
The rounded rectangular double-ratchetted green leather-lined reading slope with a removable mahogany stop, the platform top with pierced three-quarter gallery above a slide to each side, the panelled frieze drawer above a spalt supported open shelf, the waist above a panelled secretaire-drawer with hinged fallfront and green leather-lined writing-surface, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by engine-turned capitals and joined by a concave-fronted rectangular undertier, with tapering sabots, together with a further associated mahogany reading-stop, with one key
66½in. (169cm.) high, fully extended; 49½in. (126cm.) high closed; 30½in. (77cm.) wide; 22½in. (57cm.) deep
Stamped twice M.CARLIN and JME once
The rounded rectangular double-ratchetted green leather-lined reading slope with a removable mahogany stop, the platform top with pierced three-quarter gallery above a slide to each side, the panelled frieze drawer above a spalt supported open shelf, the waist above a panelled secretaire-drawer with hinged fallfront and green leather-lined writing-surface, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by engine-turned capitals and joined by a concave-fronted rectangular undertier, with tapering sabots, together with a further associated mahogany reading-stop, with one key
66½in. (169cm.) high, fully extended; 49½in. (126cm.) high closed; 30½in. (77cm.) wide; 22½in. (57cm.) deep
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