An antique desk portfolio or blotter of rectangular form, featuring a brown leather cover with an inset print. The leather is embellished with a decorative gold-tooled border showing a repeating foliate and wave pattern. The central inset print depicts a rural European genre scene, likely Dutch? or Flemish? in style, with figures engaged in dancing and drinking outside a tavern, alongside a man on horseback and a seated dog in the foreground. The scene is rendered as a tinted engraving or chromolithograph on paper. The verso is lined with a ribbed brown fabric and incorporates several leather straps intended for securing papers or writing implements.
Length: 21.5 cm
Height: 11.5 cm.
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