AN EMPIRE REVIVAL STYLE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED MAHOGANY DESK, MODERN, with a rectangular gilt tooled red leather inset writing panel in a conforming top with canted corners, before an upper structure centering a recessed panel door with raised lozenge, decorated with a shaped lozenge escutcheon and ribbon tied berried laurel wreath mount flanked by two open compartments above a long horizontal open space, adjoining three matching drawers enclosing circular reeded cast pulls and bronze lined keyholes, beneath a block pedestal and gilt reticulated gallery of entre-lacs, the desk lower structure with one long desk drawer centering a foliate tipped elongated lozenge escutcheon adjoining a similar short drawer with circular pull, over a lozenge paneled door with similarly detailed escutcheon and centering a cast bronze torch en flambeau entwined with leafy vines and opening to stacked drawers, flanked by gilt maiden busts and tapering anthemion mounted pilasters ending in paired feet sabots, within side sliding shelves enclosing gilt tooled red leather tops and loop pulls, includes four keys. Height: 51" Width: 45 3/8" Depth: 31 1/2" Provenance: Lifelong Collection of Clocks and Antiques, Navasota, Texas