Mazarin desk in Boulle tortoiseshell and brass marquetry, richly decorated with animals such as sea horses, birds, butterflies, squirrels and monkeys, the top centred on three dancing figures with three putti under a canopy supported by sirens and winged caryatids, framed with foliage scrolls, the front opening to seven drawers and a flap. The truncated cone-shaped double bracket feet are joined four by four by a brace and stand on swivel feet. Ornamented with gilded chased bronzes such as the gallery on the top and the fillets framing the drawers. Louis XIV period, attributed to Nicolas Sageot, circa 1700. Height 78.5 cm - Width: 128 cm - Depth: 72.6 cm (reinforcements, accidents and missing pieces) 30 000 / 40 000 € Stamping was not widely used before the Regency period, so it is still difficult today to attribute a piece of furniture to a cabinetmaker. Attributions therefore often depend on stylistic comparisons. Our elegant Mazarin desk in Boulle marquetry is no exception to this rule, but it can nevertheless be associated with the work of Nicolas Sageot. With its double bracket feet joined four by four by an openwork brace, but also and above all with its Bérain-style decoration of grotesques, animals, arabesques and foliage, our desk is close to this important Mazarin desk in Boulle marquetry stamped by Nicolas Sageot in the Royal Swedish Collections (inv. H.G.K. 215, illustrated in P. Grand, "Le mobilier Boulle et les ateliers de l'époque", L'Estampille L'Objet d'Art, n. 266, February 1993, p. 50). Its unusual decoration also allows a comparison with ours, as both feature a decoration of squirrels under a canopy on the drawer fronts.