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19th Century Louis XV Bureau
Located in London, GB
Napoleon III Bureau depicting scrolling acanthus leaves and flowers throughout. Inlaid in King and
Category
Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Late 18th Century Bureau Plat
Located in Stamford, CT
Late 18th century to early 19th century writing table.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Guillerme et Chambron Votre Maison Bureau
By Votre Maison, Guillerme et Chambron
Located in London, GB
Solid oak wall-mounted bureau by Guillerme et Chambron for Votre Maison. The drop down desk surface
Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Writing Table/Bureau Plat Bronze-Mounted with Matching Chairs French late 19th C
Located in Uppingham, GB
French bronze-mounted mahogany writing table/bureau plat (19th century)
A superb 'Stand Alone
Category
Antique 1890s French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Bureau Rognon after Paul-Charles Sormani
By Paul-Charles Sormani
Located in Bergen, NL
A gilt bronze-mounted kingwood parquetry and fruitwood floral marquetry bureau rognon after Paul
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood, Kingwood
LOUIS XV WALNUT PROVENCAL BUREAU PLAT
Located in Natchez, MS
Louis XV Walnut Provencal Bureau Plat with leather top and original ormolu mounts. Great size.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Leather
Louis XV provincial fruitwood bureau plat
Located in San Francisco, CA
Louis XV provincial fruitwood bureau plat, the rectangular leather-inset top with molded edge above
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Bureau plat
Located in New York, NY
A Directoire mahogany , 3 drawers in apron, with a brown leather inset top, with a free standing cartonnier, Continental, late 18th century
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Bronze
$28,000
18th Century Louis XVI Bureau Plat
Located in Paris, FR
Rectangular shape bureau, mahogany and mahogany veneer.
It comprises three drawers on the front
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Kingwood and Ormolu Bureau Plat Late 19th Century by Au Gros Chene, Paris
By Au Gros Chene
Located in Heathfield, East Sussex
A fine French kingwood and ormolu-mounted bureau plat by the renowned and luxury Parisian
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Impressive French Empire Cylinder Bureau, Early 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
With extraordinary quality mahogany and gilt bronze. Topped with grey marble. Very unusual model of Empire Furniture.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Neoclassical Desks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis XIV Brass-Inlaid Mazarin Bureau
Located in Paris, FR
leaves.
French work of Louis XIV period
Category
Antique 1690s French Louis XIV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Louis XV Period Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A Louis XV period walnut bereau plat with cabriole legs terminating in "pied de biche" feet.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XVI Brass-mounted Inlaid Mahogany Cylinder Bureau
Located in Brooklyn, NY
FRENCH LOUIS XVI BRASS-MOUNTED & CHECKER-INLAID MAHOGANY AND PLUM-PUDDING CYLINDER BUREAU
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Marble, Brass
Regency Style Bureau
Located in New York, NY
Very finely crafted. This Louis XV Style Bureau Plat is custom made and hand crafted with a classic
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
$15,800
19th Century Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Mosman Park, AU
A good quality 19th century French Louis XV style parquetry and ormolu-mounted bureau plat of
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Regence Kingwood Bureau Plat With Ormolu Mounts
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Franch regence ormolu-mounted kingwood bureau plat with leather writing surface
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
"Bois Clair" Charles X Burled Ash Bureau
Located in New Orleans, LA
An ash veneer and string inlay desk with an embossed leather top over drawers, on finely turned
Category
Antique 19th Century French Charles X Desks and Writing Tables
Large Boulle Louis XVI Desk Writing Table Bureau Plat Marquetry Inlay
Located in Potters Bar, Herts
Absolutely stunning French Boulle style desk or bureau plat.
One of the things that attracted us
Category
Vintage 1980s Louis XVI Desks
Fine Quality Mid-19th Century Goncalo Alves Bureau Plat in the French Style
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Suffolk, GB
A fine quality mid-19th century (1840) Goncalo alves freestanding bureau plat in the French style
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Zebra Wood
Louis XV Style Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Louisville, KY
With inset porcelain plaques.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Bureau Double Action Piano Top 4 Sided
Located in Santander, ES
Important and exceptional quality large 4-sided French bureau of finely figured mahogany exterior
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis Philippe Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French Rosewood Cylinder Bureau with Gilded Bronze, Louis XVI Period
By Dubois Fils
Located in Madrid, ES
French rosewood cylinder bureau. Louis XVI period.
With gilded bronze. The back also veneered
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Verny Martin Style Mahogany Bureau De Dame, circa 1890
Located in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
A French Vernis Martin style mahogany bureau de dame with a brass gallery to the top and three
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Early 18th c. Mahogany Centre Writing Table / Bureau Plat .
Located in Milan, IT
Very elegant ,early 18th France centre bureau plat, with leather top, also in the two pull out
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XIV Bureau Mazarin
Located in Geneva, CH
Rare Louis XIV rectangular-shaped ormolu-mounted "à décor de Jasmin" bureau Mazarin.
The
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Late 19th Century Louis XV Style Kingwood Bureau Plat
Located in Froxfield, Wiltshire
A late 19th century Louis XV style Kingwood Bureau plat with cabriole legs, inset leather top and
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Fine and Highly Mounted Empire Style Mahogany Cylinder-Bureau
By G. None
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine Empire style ormolu-mounted mahogany Cylinder-Bureau. A marble toped rectangular top above
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Macassar Ebony Bureau Plat in the style of Ruhlmann
By Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
Located in San Francisco, CA
Stunning beautiful.`
Category
Vintage 1930s French Desks and Writing Tables
Bureau enfant bois stratifié vintage
Located in SAINT-CLÉMENT-DE-RIVIÈRE, FR
Bureau enfant en bois contre plaqué et en état moyen. Le bois est taché et rayé. Il est vermoulé
Category
Vintage 1970s French International Style Desks
Materials
Pine
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Marquetry Bureau Plat and Cartonnier
By Mathieu-Guillaume Cramer
Located in London, Middlesex
bureau plat, having a rectangular top with a black Moroccan leather, the frieze having two drawers and
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
A 19th Century Louis XV Style French Floral Marquetry Serpentine Bureau Plat
Located in Toorak, VIC
A 19th Century Louis XV Style French Floral Marquetry Serpentine Bureau Plat.
The incredibly
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Walnut Bureau Plat
Located in Louisville, KY
Second Half of the 19th Century; featuring an inset rectangular top over a two drawer frieze with side pulls; raised on square tapering legs.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Bureau années 1970 métal et stratifié
Located in SAINT-CLÉMENT-DE-RIVIÈRE, FR
Bureau et en état moyen. Le bois est taché et rayé. Il est vermoulé. Le métal est rouillé à
Category
Vintage 1970s French Post-Modern Desks
Materials
Iron
19th Century Louis XVI Mahogany and Leather Small Bureau Plat RESTORED
Located in Toledo, Castilla La Mancha
Elegant small Louis XVI writing desk with wheels, leather top with two side drawers and one central
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, French, Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau Plat with Bronze Mounts
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
A handsome Louis XV style writing desk having a shaped top with a central ebonized ground inland
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Empire Gilt Bronze-Mounted Mahogany Bureau Plat with a Leather Top
Located in Dallas, TX
A Empire gilt bronze-mounted mahogany bureau plat, the top with a green leather writing surface
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Bureau Plat De Style Louis XVI
Located in NAVILLY, FR
Bureau plat de style Louis XVI en acajou et filets de laiton garni d’un cuir havane doré au petit
Category
Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Wood
Bureau verre et altuglas Pierre Vandel
By Pierre Vandel
Located in SORBIERS, FR
Magnifique Bureau en verre et altuglass signé Pierre Vandel, en bon état général. Le verre du
Category
Vintage 1970s French Desks
Materials
Cut Glass, Altuglas
Très beau bureau en palissandre, python et cuir de vachette - Période Art Déco
By Art Decor
Located in CANNES, FR
Très beau et rare bureau d'époque Art-Déco en palissandre, python et cuir de vachette
1 grand
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Vintage 1940s French Art Deco Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Palisander, Python
Louis XV Style Painted Bureau Plat
Located in San Francisco, CA
A red carved and painted desk with one drawer, scrolling gold leg decorations and ocre yellowish
Category
20th Century French Desks
Materials
Oak
Louis XV lacquer bureau en pente
Located in San Francisco, CA
Louis XV ormolu-mounted lacquer bureau en pente, the rectangular top over a drop-front, enclosing a
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Art Nouveau Bureau by Louis Majorelle
By Louis Majorelle
Located in London, GB
An Art Nouveau mahogany drop front
writing desk with mother of pearl
inlay by Louis Majorelle
Category
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Mother-of-Pearl
Bureau moderne en bois et métal 1980
Located in SAINT-CLÉMENT-DE-RIVIÈRE, FR
Bureau en bois contre plaqué et en état moyen. Le bois est taché et rayé. Il est vermoulé.
Category
Vintage 1980s French Bauhaus Desks
Materials
Fir
Louis XV Vernis Martin Bureau Abattant
Located in Nice, Cote d
Azur
A Louis XV desk opening by an abattant, red lacquer interior, on four cabriole legs, Vernis Martin
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Lacquer
18th Century Régence Walnut Bureau de Pente
Located in Paris, FR
18th century Régence walnut flap-down desk, with two drawers in the front and four interior ones
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Bronze
Bureau de Pente 18th century Louis XV
Located in Rapperswil-Jona, CH
Rare antique Louis XV desk slope of the mid-18th century, Parisian origin eventful shape on all
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Empire Mahogany Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Miami, FL
Empire mahogany bronze-mounted bureau plat with an inset tooled leather top above a center drawer
Category
Antique 19th Century French Empire Desks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Mahogany Bureau Plat with Ormolu Mounted
Located in Madrid, ES
Louis XVI mahogany Bureau Plat with ormolu mounted.
Four drawers in front and the back simulated
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Parquet Fruitwood Bureau
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Louis XVI parquet fruitwood bureau from the late 18th century.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Fruitwood
Louis XV Kingwood Bureau Plat with Medusa Heads
Located in Miami, FL
Louis XV style kingwood bureau plat with cream painted top, the front with five functional drawers
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
A Directoire Ormolu Mounted Mahogany Bureau a Cylindre
Located in New York, NY
The rectangular top with three short drawers above a cover rolling open to reveal an interior fitted with small drawers and pigeonholes, the pullout leather writing surface with thre...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Louis XVI Rosewood Herringbone Inlays Bureau de Dame
Located in Tricase, Italia
Louis XVI style bureau de dame, in rosewood with inlays in herringbone pattern.
The writing desk
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Rosewood
Louis XV Style Lacquered and Gilt Bronze-Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Dallas, TX
Fine, French produced Louis XV style bureau plat, gilt embossed with lacquered frame. With original
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
Mahogany and oak writing table (bureau-plat) by Fidelys Schey
By Fidelys Schey
Located in New York, NY
This desk has a rectangular gilt and tooled brown leather-inset top with molded surround. Each side
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Regence Period Bureau, "The Dionysian Procession", 18th Century, circa 1725
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Desk from the Regency period "Desk of the Dionysiac Procession" attributed to Noël Gérard, (1685
Category
Antique Early 18th Century French Régence Desks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI/Transitional Style Mahogany Gilt Metal Mounted Bureau en Pente
By David Roentgen
Located in Northwich, GB
Louis XVI/transitional style mahogany gilt metal mounted Bureau en Pente, with painted scenes of
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 3, 2023In French, the term for a writing desk that often featured a drop-down writing surface is secretaire. This type of desk is called a secretary desk in English. Simply put, a secretary desk is a multifunctional piece of furniture with a hinged writing surface that folds open or drops down. When the leaf is folded out, small inner storage compartments, which are called pigeonholes, cubbies, recesses or drawers, are revealed. On 1stDibs, shop antique secretary desks from some of the world's top sellers.
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