Writing desk - Louis XV
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Bernard Van Risenburgh
Very rare and important Louis XV writing desk, in ebony veneer with chased, pierced and giltbronze mounts. Stamped by B.V.R.B ( Bernard II Vanrisamburg). An almost identical desk figures in a painting by Louis Tocqué (1739), representing the young King Louis XV.
Gift of Mr and Mrs Charles Wrightsman
Gift of Mr and Mrs Charles Wrightsman