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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1879 The earred rectangular top with three-quarter balustrade gallery and inset with gilt-embossed leather writing surface above a central freize drawer with acanthus and floral garland entrelace mount to both the front and reverse, flanked to each side with two short drawers with ebony-strung trellis parquetry and shield escutcheons each side with leather-inset slide writing surface and corresponding parquetry centred by flower-filled urn mount above a shaped apron, on fluted tapering legs, signed and dated 'henry Dasson 1879' and stamped 'HENRY DASSON / 1879' 30 ? in. (77 cm.) high; 57 in. (145 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep
This bureau plat, displaying mounts and motifs unique to Riesener's oeuvre, is an exemplary replica by Henry Dasson of a celebrated bureau delivered by Riesener in 1784 for the?Cabinet Intérieur du Roi?at Fontainebleau, now lost.