A LOUIS PHILIPPE CARVED MAHOGANY BUREAU CYLINDRE, CIRCA 1840s, with a rectangular three drawer top above a cylinder door opening to a row of three short drawers within two long open compartments, over a gilt tooled blue leather inset writing surface within a sliding frame on a kneehole desk with one single long drawer flanked by short stacked drawers, raised on double ringed tapering circular reeded legs, lozenge form bronze escutcheons mounted throughout, includes eight keys. Height: 47 1/4" Width: 45" Depth: 23 1/4" Provenance: Property from a Prominent River Oaks Estate Collection, Houston, Texas Property from a Prominent River Oaks Estate Collection, Houston, Texas