Table - desk in classical style

veneer - rosewood, walnut top, hardware - gilt bronze; 84 x 143.5 x 74 cm.
Western Europe, early 20th century.
Free-standing, with a rectangular top with risalit corners, front with three drawers in the drawercase and on the short sides with desktops sliding out from under the top, supported on four tapering legs, veneered with different types of veneers and inlaid, decorated on the top with painted floral motifs and musical instruments and in the base with gilded bronzes: spiral ribbon, festoons suspended from ribbons and medallions.
The top is framed at the edge with brass plate, and edged with inlaid borders and ribbons, with a black stained field in the center, which is decorated on the sides with arched niches, convex on the longer ones and concave on the shorter ones. The central field with a composition in the middle with numerous instruments: pan flute, tambourine, double trumpet, lyre, flute, trumpet, castanets and maracas, on the sides of which outgoing stems leafed and flowered with seated birds with tips on their heads.
Elongated cubes at the structural junctions of the casings with the legs and between the drawers. Casement on the sides of the longer sides (front faces of the drawers) and the short sides at the bottom semicircular cut out and in these places decorated with medallions decorated with bas-relief clouds and birds. On the faces of the drawers and sides variously shaped fields framed by a brass spiral ribbon.