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Mahogany and oak writing table (bureau-plat) by Fidelys Schey FranceCirca 1780 This desk has a rectangular gilt and tooled brown leather-inset top with molded surround. Each side has a writing slide above a three-paneled frieze of drawers with cartouche-shaped, scrolled, laurel and berry keyhole mount, reversing to three faux drawers. The desk is raised on square tapering legs with caps. Fidelys Schey was established in the rue Faubourg-Saint-Antoine with a saleroom adjacent, which was run by his wife. Patronized by the Garde-Meuble, to whom he supplied two tables à jeux for the Château de Fontainbleau. Schey worked almost exclusively with mahogany in the restrained Louis XVI ‘Grecian’ style.
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