# Bureau Plat [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BÉFORT, Mathieu]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Gilt broze, ebony, 79 x 158 x 86 cm ## Commentary This Régence style gilt bronze mounted brass inlay ebony and ebonized bureau plat was made in Paris in the manner of André-Charles Boulle. It is fitted with a black leather writing surface, the desk is fitted with three frieze drawers. This bureau plat, with its recessed central drawer and female mask corner mounts, is based upon a series of celebrated bureaux plats with female masks produced around 1715-20 in the workshop of the most celebrated French ébéniste of the Louis XIV period, André-Charles Boulle. Boulle usually worked in tortoiseshell and brass marquetry, however, 18th century examples are also recorded in amaranth and ebony. Boulle also produced models with satyr masks chutes. ## Related artworks - [Cabinet]() - [Set of Two Louis XIV Style Boulle Marquetry Pedestals]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()