Description: SECRéTAIRE à ABATTANT Attributed to Martin Carlin, Paris, second half of 19th Century Mahogany, with red marble top, with two doors and a fallfront topped by a drawer, mounted with gilt-bronze friezes, garlands, laurel wreaths and medallions with putti playing. Six small drawers and five compartments inside the fallfront,?with green morocco wrightint top. Bearing M.Carlin stamp on top, below the marble top. Damages, breacks and alterations, replacements to the bronzes.. The marble top replaced. 57.3 x 36.6 x 14.2 in. Provenienza/Provenance Collection Gutierrez de Estrada, Catalogue des objets d'art et d'ameublement du XVIIIe siècle, vente Galerie Georges Petit 28 et 29 avril 1905, n.175 Pietro Accorsi, Torino Collezione privata, Torino Bibliografia/Literature Seymour de Ricci, Le style Louis XVI, Mobilier et decoration, Julius Hoffman, Stuttgard