Cut-edge armoire-style secretary with flap, richly inlaid on a sycamore base in rosewood frames (cracks, missing parts and restorations), opening with a drawer, a flap revealing six drawers, four compartments and two leaves concealing a chest. It features a décor of flowering vases, knotted bouquets, an animated landscape in a medallion and friezes of ruins framed by ribboned rushes, with simulated fluted uprights. Chased and gilded bronzes in part. It is topped with a red Flanders marble top. Attributed to Daniel DELOOSE, master by royal edict in 1767. Louis XVI period. Height : 139 cm 139 cm - Width 79 cm - Depth 37 cm Note : The ribboned rush frame of the animated landscape is found in particular in Daniel Deloose, to whom we attribute our secretary (see in particular Shelley M. Bennett and Carolyn Sargentson, French Art of the Eighteenth Century at The Huntington, Yale, 2008, pp. 94-96). Appraisal by Mr. Cédric HÉNON - 06 95 34 93 78 - cedric.henon@authenticite.fr