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18th Century Louis XVI Trompe l
Oeil Marquetry Desk or Secrétaire Chiffonière
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century Louis XVI trompe l'Oeil marquetry writing desk or secrétaire chiffonière
An
Category
Antique 1770s French Louis XVI Secretaires
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI Cylinder Desk
Located in Austin, TX
Antique French Louis XVI style cylinder desk or secretaire in rosewood with beautiful marquetry and
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Louis XVI Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI Inlaid Rosewood Secretaire Abattant Desk Dresser, 1880
Located in Portland, OR
A good quality antique French inlaid marquetry Rosewood secretaire abattant, circa 1880.
Made from
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Secretaires
Materials
Marble
Walnut Writing Table or Extendable Game Table by Maison Leleu
By Maison Leleu
Located in New York, NY
Walnut marquetry writing table with gilt bronze accents and a leather writing surface, which opens
Category
Vintage 1950s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Marquetry Desk Chest of Drawers
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century French Marquetry Desk Chest of Drawers
49''hx 26''w x 14''d
(also
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Antique 19th Century French Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Louis Xv Transition Style French Marquetry Desk
By Georges Leleu
Located in Vancouver, BC
A good late 19thC French desk with book matched marquetry on all sides; new brown leather top with
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Ormolu
1940
s French Style Marquetry Writing Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1940's French Style Marquetry Writing Desk w/ Leather blotter and ornate escutcheons
Category
Vintage 1940s French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Inlaid Marquetry Ladies Desk
Located in Wilson, NC
French inlaid marquetry ladies desk, the top with cast brass gallery, the top, fall board, front
Category
Antique 1880s French Desks
Materials
Brass
French Inlaid Marquetry Ladies Desk
Located in Wilson, NC
French inlaid marquetry ladies desk, the top with cast brass gallery, the top, fall board, front
Category
Antique 1880s French Desks
Materials
Brass
French Writing Desk With Marquetry Inlay
Located in New Orleans, LA
FRENCH WRITING DESK WITH MARQUETRY LINE INLAY, TAMBOUR CENTER, FAUX BOOK SIDE CABINETS AND LEATHER
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Bronze
Cylinder Marquetry Desk
Located in Bedford, NY
VERY DETAILED WALNUT INLAID MARQUETRY CYLINDER DESK...DETAIL WORK THROUGHOUT INSIDE ABD OUTSIDE
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
$5,900
Fine Marquetry French Antique Desk Signed Grimard
Located in Coral Gables, FL
French Antique Desk Signed GRIMARD, Meubles d'Arts 5, Rue de Charonne, Paris, From Villa Sanary
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
French Heavily Gilt Bronze Mounted Desk With Marquetry and Parquetry
Located in Redding, CA
This Curvy little desk is big on style, loaded with gilt bronze mounts
And so beautifully shaped
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
19th C French Ladies Marquetry Writing Desk with Ormalou
Located in Stamford, CT
19th C French Ladies Marquetry Writing Desk with Ormalou
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
20th Century France Louis XV Kingwood Inlaid Marquetry Desk and Writing Table
By Charles Topino
Located in Roma, RM
Purple ebony centre desk - France, 20th century, in the manner of CHARLES TOPINO, XIX century
Category
Early 20th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Fruitwood, Kingwood
Oak and Pine Marquetry Desk
Located in Stamford, CT
Oak and Pine Marquetry Desk
Category
Early 20th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak, Pine
Rare marquetry French desk with gilded bronze candle holders
Located in Vancouver, BC
Rich Louis XV style writing desk of ovoid form inlaid all round, one long drawer below a leather
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau Desk with Secret
Located in Matosinhos, PT
19th century French Louis XV style marquetry bureau desk with secret compartment, circa 1870.
It
Category
Antique 1870s French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Wood
Lous XVI Marquetry French Abatant
Located in Hudson, NY
Louis XVI marquetry secretaire with original grey Saint Anne marble top. French 18th Century.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Tulipwood, Mahogany
19th Century Rosewood French Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau Desk with Secret
Located in Matosinhos, PT
19th century rosewood French Louis XV style marquetry bureau desk with secret compartment, circa
Category
Antique 1870s French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Rosewood, Walnut
François Linke, Louis XV Style Desk in Marquetry and Gilt Bronze, Napoleon III
By François Linke
Located in NONANCOURT, FR
Louis XV style flat desk richly decorated with chiseled and gilded bronzes with in particular large
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
English 19th Century Marquetry Style Drop Front Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1900s antique neoclassical style drop front desk is made of walnut wood in its original light
Category
Antique Early 1900s French Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique French Desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A very fine diminutive antique French ladies writing table. Marquetry and parquetry inlaid
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
$3,950
French 19th century double-sided marquetry bureauplat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French 19th century double-sided marquetry bureauplat with side extensions and bronze dore mounts
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Late 19th Century Mahogany, Marquetry and Kingwood French Writing Desk
Located in Darwen, GB
A late 19th century mahogany, marquetry and kingwood French writing desk. Having a rectangular
Category
Antique 1880s Desks
Secrétaire Chest, Semanier, Marquetry, French, circa 1910
Located in Honiton, Devon
Good quality marquetry Semanier with ormolu fittings in good condition. French Circa 1910.
This
Category
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Desks
Materials
Rosewood, Satinwood
A Louis XV Style Ormolu Mounted Tulipwood and Marquetry Desk
Located in Riverdale, NY
the ormolu-moulded kidney shaped top inlaid with flowering vines above a conforming similarly inlaid frieze fitted with three drawers, on cabriole legs with foliate cast sabots
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Louis XVI Style Marquetry Writing Table
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
A writing desk with gilt gilt bronze (i.e. ormolu), veneered in satinwood and marquetry depictions
Category
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Satinwood
Antique French slant front desk
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Louis XV style rosewood and marquetry slant front desk.
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Rosewood
Louis XV Style Marquetry "Secretaire en Pente" Desk
Located in Alexandria, VA
This bombe desk is shaped with swell front, sides and top. The fall front with armorial inlay
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Rosewood, Fruitwood
Paul Sormani - Table or Desk in Marquetry and Gilt Bronze, Napoleon III Period
By Paul Sormani
Located in NONANCOURT, FR
Table or desk opening with a frieze drawer in rosewood and violet wood diamond marquetry
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century France Napoleon III Rosewood Desk Writing Table
Located in Roma, RM
Fantastic and rare French centre desk, completely inlaid on every part, we are faced with a small
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut, Rosewood
19th Century French Napoleon III in Boulle Marquetry Writing Table
By Napoléon III
Located in Waedenswil, CH
This beautiful second generation desk in Boulle marquetry was produced in France in the 19th
Category
Antique 19th Century French Baroque Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Mid-19th Century Walnut Inlaid Floral Marquetry French Writing Table
Located in Firenze, IT
Mid-19th century French writing table Inlaid floral marquetry decoration of walnut and ebonized
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Mazarin Desk in Boulle Marquetry 19th Century Napoleon III Period
Located in Manduel, FR
Impressive Mazarin desk in Boulle marquetry.
Period early 19th century.
Perfect condition
Category
Antique 1810s French Napoleon III Desks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Inkwell and Penholder in Boulle Marquetry, 19th Century
Located in Manduel, FR
Desk accessories including penholder and inkwell with crystal inkwells in Boulle marquetry
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Inkwells
Materials
Brass
French Petite Writing Table with Leather Top, Bronze Mounts and Marquetry Inlay
Located in Toronto, ONTARIO
A beautiful European walnut French writing table with inlay Marquetry decoration on all four sides
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Style Tulipwood and Marquetry Bureau Plat
Located in Uppingham, Rutland
Really good quality and well proportioned French tulipwood, marquetry and brass mounted bureau plat
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century France Louis XV Revival Walnut Writing Desk Table Inlay Bronze, 1890
Located in Roma, RM
Small French writing table, in Louis XV style, but from the late 19th century. In walnut wood and
Category
Antique 1890s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Inkwell in Boulle Marquetry with Crystal Inkwell, 19th Century
Located in Manduel, FR
Desk accessories
inkwell with crystal inkwells
in Boulle marquetry
Napoleon III period
Category
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Inkwells
Materials
Brass
19th Century Marquetry Extended Louis Philippe period Center Table in Mahogany
Located in Torino, IT
19th century inlaid Louis Philippe period center table in mahogany circa 1840 France
in good solid
Category
Antique 1840s French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Rosewood
Napoleon III French Marquetry Drop-Leaf Salon or Writing Table with Drawer, 1860
Located in San Francisco, CA
wonderfully executed marquetry and ormolu decorations throughout.
Ebonized mahogany top, frame, and turned
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
Wonderful Bookcase Desk Richly Bronzed in Brass Marquetry Napoleon 3 Period 19th
Located in Manduel, FR
Bookcase desk in brass marquetry.
Period Napoléon III -Perfect condition.
Incredible golden
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Desks
Materials
Brass
Bonheur du Jour with Clock 19th Century French Desk
Located in Santander, ES
A jewel of a 19th century French Bonheur du Jour aka ladies' desk in mahogany, rosewood, kingwood
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XV style marquetry bureau plat/hall table
Located in Vancouver, BC
An 18thC inspired French bureau plat in overall lozenge marquetry; of serpentine form, with three
Category
Antique 19th Century French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Louis XV Kingwood
Fruitwood Marquetry Bureau Plat
Located in New York, NY
Ormalu mounts and inlaid with margqueterie of flowers. With leather-inset top above three apron drawers on one side, dummy drawers on the other side, raised on cabriole legs
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Small French Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau Plat, circa 1820-1840
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Small French Louis XV style marquetry bureau plat, circa 1820-1840.
Elegant and beautiful
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XV Rosewood Bureau de Dame Desk Wood Inlay, 1890
Located in Roma, RM
French bureau for women, of small dimensions, graceful in the moved shapes and in the inlays of
Category
Antique 1880s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
ON SALE Desk 18th century rosewood drop front desk.
Located in San Francisco, CA
18th century rosewood drop front desk. The interior drawers are from the 19th Century
Measures: 33
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Rosewood
19th Century Marquetry Bureau De Dame
Located in San Francisco, CA
19TH CENTURY MARQUETRY BUREAU DE DAME
(secretary, desk)
35"H x 26" w 18"D
Category
Antique 19th Century French Rococo Desks
Burr Walnut and Marquetry Bureau Mazarin
Located in London, GB
French Louis XIV Burr Walnut & Marquetry Bureau Mazarin with Berainesque Inlaid Designs c.1700
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Desks
19th Century Louis XV Kingwood Rosewood Writing Desk Table Vernis Martin Style
By Vernis Martin
Located in Roma, RM
Fantastic and rare writing desk table in the style of Vernis Martin, Napoleon III era, circa 1860
Category
Antique 1860s French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Pencil Box of Lord in Boulle Marquetry Napoléon III Period
Located in Manduel, FR
Desk accessories
pencil Box of Lord
with crystal inkwells
in Boulle marquetry
Napoléon III
Category
Antique 1860s French Napoleon III More Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Magazine Rack in Boulle Marquetry Natural Tortioseshell, 19th Century Napoleon
Located in Manduel, FR
Magazine rack in tortoiseshell period Napoleon III, perfect condition nice bronzes in the Louis XV style veneer with tortoiseshell "full" on all sides (also behind). Hook for hanging...
Category
Antique 1850s French Napoleon III More Desk Accessories
Materials
Tortoise Shell
20th Century Louis XVI Style Writing Desk
Located in Pataskala, OH
Understated elegance of this writing desk is sure to fit with many different style, Louis XV
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks
Materials
Leather
Sumptuous Office in Boulle Marquetry from the 19th Century
Located in charmes, FR
A beautiful 19th century Boulle desk in red tortoiseshell, with sumptuous tortoiseshell marquetry
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Desks
Materials
Wood
Desk Bureau Plat 19th Century in the Louis XV Manner
Located in Santander, ES
A magnificent French Louis XV style Bureau Plat dating to the end of the 19th century, with
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Desks
Materials
Kingwood
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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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