Attributed to Town & Emanuel for Edward Holmes Baldock (British, 1777–1845)

The marquetry top comprising pen-engraved fruitwood, walnut, sycamore, olive and yew-wood. Within an undulating palmwood and ebony surround. The gilt-bronze surround cast with shells and scrolls.

The frieze decorated with marquetry, the front and back with a recessed central drawer flanked on each side by a drawer with scrolled handles held by rococo figural busts. The drawers with birchwood linings. The bombé sides with marquetry. The whole raised on cabriole legs headed by gilt-bronze cartouches with foliate entwined chutes terminating in scrolled sabots.

Inscribed in ink to the carcass 'Moreaux 72'.

The gilt-bronze variously stamped ‘O’.

England. Circa, 1830/1840.

The earlier marquetry German, 16th Century.