"Lxvi Salon Table With Writing Desk, Stamped F. Bayer And Jurande Hallmark"
Very beautiful living room table forming a writing table in rosewood and satin marquetry Its top as well as the belt on the four sides are in marquetry called "à la reine" made of crosses and flowered diamonds in light wood or wood nets tinted green with a foliage pattern in the center. It opens with a frieze drawer revealing a writing zipper sheathed in green leather. At each corner of the belt we discover small green tinted panels with a leafy pattern in the center. It rests on four sheath feet inlaid with a simulated fluting surmounted by a bronze crenellated capital and finished with sabots. Ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronzes (beautiful old gilding) for the gallery, the clogs, the crenellated capitals and the keyhole. Original lock but does not work, posterior key Stamped on the crosspiece below F. Bayer for François Bayer master in 1764 and hallmark JME