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Sloping desk "in the middle" H. 92 ; W. 73,4 ;...

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Sloping desk "in the middle" H. 92 ; W. 73,4 ; D. 44 cm Bibliography : in " Le génie des Hache ", P. et F. Rouge, Faton 2005, p. 378-379 and 380. In solid cherry wood, opening with a flap revealing a box with two rows of three drawers and two sliding rails. It rests on four cambered legs finished with light sycamore veneer faux sabots. Curved on the sides, chamfered flap and curved belt. Fully inlaid with friezes of foliage in bright yellow barberry, punctuated with dark wood dots, and green-tinted reeds around two branches with saw-cut flowers tied with a ribbon. The chamfers of the flap and the feet are plated with a frieze alternating light and dark plum trees, a frieze repeated on the drawers. Jean-François HACHE (Grenoble 1730-1796), Grenoble around 1755