France

Antique Bureau à Cylindre

2560T

Antique Bureau à Cylindre: Fine 19th century French Louis XVI bureau à cylindre the marble top with pierced brass gallery over a canted string inlaid pediment supported on a cross-banded geometric parqutry frame flanking a cylinder inlaid with flowers and leaves which opens to reveal a sliding adjustable desktop and three inlaid ormolu mounted drawers above a set of three parquetry inlaid drawers all raised on four square tapering inlaid legs terminating with ormolu mounts in the form of acanthus leaves.

Footnote: Hidden in one of the little drawers of this bureau, was a newspaper clipping titled ‘Post Office and the Blackout – Early Posting Appeal to the Public’. This article remains inside the bureau and a small section is detailed below and attached in the gallery of images here.

‘…arrangements have recently been overhauled with a view to providing services which can be maintained during the winter months under black-out conditions, and which it is hoped will suffer no more than incidental disturbance in the event of enemy action, when this action is unusually violent…’

Circa: 1900

SPECIFICATIONS MAKE AN ENQUIRY

Dimensions

1010mmL x 590mmD x 110mmH

Restoration Chart

Re-polishing or Waxing

As part of restoration, we can clean and gently re-polish and or wax this piece of antique furniture depending on your individual taste. Our French polisher has been with us for 40 years, and does everything by hand. No spray guns, and no nasty polyurethane sprays. Polishing allows the grain of the piece of furniture to become evident once again, and waxing provides a soft glow, however there is also the option to keep the piece in totally original condition if this is your preference. To discuss the best restoration option for this piece please don’t hesitate to phoneor email us.

Customise Your Desktop Leather

Where possible, we try to salavage the original leather on a piece if it is beautiful, however this is not always possible where time has left to great a mark. We offer clients the opportunity to have a high quality custom desktop leather made to your exact specifications.Do you have a particular colour scheme you’re trying to work with? Simply provide us with a colour swatch and we will have one made to match. Options include matt or colour graduated, aged with patina or looking brand new and don’t forget to tell us what style of embossing you’d like for your borders and if you’d like them gilded as well.To discuss desktop options for this piece, please phoneor email us.

Delivery

Wallrocks has over 35 years experience shipping antiques all around the world.

Be assured that we invest in the safe delivery of all our antique furniture, and track all our deliveries. It is of paramount importance to us that your purchase arrives at your home safely, and we personally pack all items ourselves prior to shipping.

Delivery Within Australia

For delivery of antique furniture to anywhere beyond a 150 kilometre radius of Brisbane CBD, Wallrocks relies on a number of reputable carriers, depending on your requirements, to ensure safe delivery. Please ask for a quote.

We have a complimentary delivery service of antique furniture within a 150 kilometre radius of Brisbane CBD. We will personally deliver it to your door to guarantee it arrives safely.

Overseas delivery

International customers can be confident that Wallrocks are experienced in shipping freight around the world by sea and air. Freight charges will be determined and quoted at the time of purchase.

Please contact us to discuss your delivery options.

Delivery times

Wallrocks delivery service is subject to restoration times. Our pieces are hand restored in the traditional methods and do take some time. We will always do our best to fit in with our customers’ delivery time frames and will discuss this at the time of purchase.

Are you in mid-renovation? We offer free storage of your Wallrocks purchase for a negotiated period of time with individual customers. Please contact us to find out more…

Exchange & Return

We understand buying antiques online can be of concern for some customers. For this reason, if you purchase a piece from Wallrocks and the piece that arrives is not as we have described, then we will provide a 100% refund. In 35 years of business this has never been necessary, but we provide this option as a safety-net to all our customers.