A French gilt-bronze mounted ebony bureau plat, by Guillaume Edmond Lexcellent, Paris, circa 1860

Property of a member of the House of Hohenzollern

A French gilt-bronze mounted ebony bureau plat, by Guillaume Edmond Lexcellent, Paris, circa 1860

the tooled leather top above three frieze drawers with Hercules mask escutcheons, the opposite side with dummy drawers, on cabriole legs, the right drawer stamped 'LEXCELLENT PARIS', mounts stamped 'EL' or inscribed 'BY', with inventory stamp 'Hohenzollernscher Hausbesitz Inventar'

75cm. high, 185.5cm. wide, 90cm. deep