A LOUIS PHILIPPE BIRD'S-EYE MAPLE AND AMARANTH PEDESTAL DESK, CIRCA 1840, The brown leather writing-surface above a frieze of three drawers and on twin pedestals each with three graduated drawers, a writing-slide at each end, the reverse panelled, with printed labels 'LE GARDE MEUBLE PUBLIC / BEDEL & CIE / 18, RUE ST. AUGUSTINE / 7354 / AVENUE VICTOR HUGO 6e...', 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 57 ? in. (146 cm.) wide; 29 ? in. (75.5 cm.) deep