Very fine Louis XV gilt bronze mounted kingwood bureau plat and cartonnier
Item 942
The cartonnier with circular white enameled dial signed "Masson a Paris", with roman hour markers and arabic minutes, above a case surmounted by a gilt-bronze monkey and enclosing six pigeon-holes, four containing tooled red morocco leather removable drawers, raised on scroll feet, the underside bearing the stamped initials "L V E " with an iron cross between the L and the V; the bureau plat with gilt-tooled red leather insert with a gilt bronze banded edge and scallop shells at corners, above five drawers, raised on cabriole legs mounted with chutes and terminating in sabots.
Mid-18th century, the bureau plat attributed to Pierre Migeon II, the cartonnier dial signed masson.
Bureau plat: 29" high by 88" wide by 44¾" deep Clock: 37" high
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