Jean-françois Hache (1730-1796). Cylinder Lady Desk

In walnut, molded in black; it has a cylinder surmounted by an ogee, opens with three belt drawers and rests on arched legs with blackened cut edges. The cylinder veneered with acacia inlaid in the center with cubes in a rectangular panel with retracted angles and engraved rosettes, connected, via two small burl discs to two oval satin medallions, the whole surrounded by a large net brown. The top decorated with rectangular boxes surrounded by black, that in the center with an oval medallion of tinted beech and burl spandrels, those at the ends with a diamond of light walnut in a green net. The sides of the cylinder simulate a large magnifying glass disc, suspended by a ring, with a black net taking up the shape of the cylinder. Brass fittings.