Antique French Louis XV Cylinder Marquetry & Ormolu Bureau Writing Desk 1880 Sold Katrina Gilkey observes that these

Katrina Gilkey observes that these landscapes had a social undercurrent: they were not the typical idyllic representations

The bronze is raised on a black & white varigated marble socle plinth

This unusual antique baroque cabinet having a stepped crown with carved 'egg & dart' molding below

Anker created hundreds of commissioned watercolours and drawings

Antique French Louis XV Cylinder Marquetry & Ormolu Bureau Writing Desk 1880 Sold Katrina Gilkey observes that theseA very elegant antique French Louis XV style inlaid Kingwood cylinder bureau, desk, circa 1870. This very fine serpentine or bombe shaped desk is finely inlaid with parquetry panels to the sides and the cylinder roll. To the top are three drawers, below the cylinder roll encloses a fitted interior with six drawers, below is a slide out writing surface fitted with a tooled and gilded chocolate brown leather writing surface. Below are four short and one