Emmanuel Alfred BEURDELEY 107. Emmanuel Alfred BEURDELEY Desk table forming a reading light, in green tinted sycamore veneer underlined by fillets and rosewood, resting on a tripod base in molded mahogany, the fluted shaft with asparagus. It opens with a small drawer in the waist and presents a tray with a mechanism forming a desk and a reading light, adjustable and rotating thanks to a rack system. The tray is decorated with a rectangular porcelain plate with polychrome and gold decoration of musical instruments in a frame of garland of flowers, the fields with celestial blue background in the taste of Sevres. Ornamentation in chased and gilded bronze such as frieze of rais-de-coeur, draperies, tigettes, rings and clogs. After a model by Martin Carlin. Signed on a bronze mounted foot. Louis XVI style, late 19th century. (Some scratches on the porcelain tray, small jumps in the veneer, missing the trim of the writing desk partially cracked). H : 79 cm - W : 42 cm - D : 34,5 cm The lectern table we present is a faithful replica of the one made by Martin Carlin, kept at Waddesdon Manor (Accession number 2302). The decoration of the porcelain plate with the same ornaments is reversed on the desk of our table, the only difference observed. This table is also based on the model now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (Inv. 1057-1882). This one has a porcelain plate with a similar decoration with musical trophies in the center of the composition.