Secretariat in eclectic style

veneer - mahogany, hardware - brass; 125 x 70.7 x 45 cm; depth 66 cm when top is set aside.
France, 19th/20th century.
In the form of a rectangular table with folding top with settee with shelves, veneered and decorated with hardware and brass sheet inlays. The table with a drawer in the frame, a folding top lined inside with green cloth, supported on four legs in the form of tapering turned balusters, fastened at the bottom with a binding in the shape of an X-shaped sigmoid. The sideboard with two drawers at the bottom and two shelves above them, the upper of which is supported on decorative brass balusters at the front, while at the back it is supported on a wall ending in a wave. All surfaces covered with brass veining (wall, drawer faces, drawer jambs, top, legs, binding). On the wall and the lid of the secretary, inlays cut in brass plate, with floral motifs enriched with a wreath, arrows and birds.