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Veneer of rosewood on oak wood with plenty inlays and fittings of bronze. Four slim, rambled legs, that are connected with an shelf in the lower part. At the apron in front a drawer, closed by two flaps at the sides and a small foldable board in the middle. A third of depth with top-part at the back with six small drawers, two prepared as secret locks. The inlay of coloured woods are covering all four sides aus well as the outer and inner walls of the furniture. Depiction of sceneries, groups of buildings, street views, amphoras, hydras and other ornaments. The bronze mounting is forming a frieze of rosettes, masks and arcades. Very familiar with a furniture of the same type at collection de Polis, that's signed by Vandecruse (De Lacroix). Comp. auction catalogue G. Petit, Paris, 1927 Nr. 293. Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49; Math. Lempertz'sche Kunstversteigerung: Eine bekannte Süddeutsche Privatsammlung and anderer Privatbesitz, Katalog Nr. 395.