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Lot 36
Late Victorian Oak Art Nouveau Tambour Fronted Pedestal Desk each pedestal with full graduated drawers with lacquered brass Art Nouveau scoop handles on brass & ceramic casters, tambour top enclosing fitted nest with small drawers, pigeon holes etc. with part raised gallery to top, tambour front operating central locking mechanism, 48"W
Lot 327
English School, (late 18th century), A portrait of a boy, three-quarter length, seated in a green suit with white lace collar, holding a book, in a landscape, oil on canvas, laid down on board, 35cm x 29.5cm, oval, and another, by the same hand, of a boy seated at a desk, a pair. See Illustration.
Lot 136
A late 18th century Sheffield plate and mahogany desk stand By Matthew Boulton of rectangular form with gadrooned edge and two pen trays flanking a detachable candlestick and snuffer with impressed star mark to the dish verso, between an inkwell and pounce pot held in wired frames, the ebonised full width frieze drawer with boxwood lines and agate ball handles, on ball feet 28cm wide, 16cm high, 23cm deep
Lot 283
A George I period walnut and feather banded knee-hole desk the moulded rectangular top with an inset tooled green leather writing surface over three opposing dummy frieze drawers, above three further short drawers flanking the knee and opposed by two panelled cupboard doors, opening to reveal a later compartmented interior, raised on bracket feet, alterations 125cm wide, 83cm high, 79cm deep
Lot 429
A fine 19th century mahogany, tulipwood parquetry and ormolu mounted cylinder desk By Edwards & Roberts the rectangular top with pierced gilt metal gallery above a cylinder fall decorated with a ribbon-tied marquetry musical trophy, releasing a writing slide with tooled leather inset and enclosing four short drawers around a shelved centre, similarly embellished with satinwood crossbanding and parquetry, the shaped frieze with a central button release drawer, mounted with a plaquette depicting a procession of Bacchanalian cherubs, flanked by two short drawers with bold rococo cast escutcheons applied with finely chased flower-filled baskets flanked by acanthus scrolls, each side with further plaquettes cast with cherubs allegorising the Arts of Sculpture and Painting, the frieze drawer stamped 'EDWARDS & ROBERTS', and with an internal label: 'Edwards and Roberts, Wardour St., 126 Piccadilly, 532 Oxford St., London' , the whole framed by rope twist, foliate cast, corrugated and beaded mounts and decorated with line inlay, on square tapering legs ending in stiff leaf cast sabots 122cm wide, 109cm high, 62cm deep Provenance: originally consigned from a country house in the Scottish Borders to Phillips Auctioneers in Edinburgh during the late 1980s, where it was purchased at auction by the current owner. The firm of Edwards & Roberts was noted for the exacting standards it brought to a wide range of furniture. Notwithstanding the firm's own high standards, this desk could be regarded as being of 'exhibition quality', drawing its inspiration from the virtuoso work of 18th century French cabinet makers, and particularly, the designs of Jean-Henri Riesener.
Lot 369
A 19th Century continental gilt metal and enamel desk timepiece, the 1.125in enamelled dial to the watch movement, contained in rectangular case enamelled in colours and surmounted by a figure of George and the Dragon, on four paw feet, 4.75ins high (hands missing, dial cracked and enamelled chipped especially to the cresting)
Lot 388
A 19th Century French carved ivory desk seal handle, carved with the bust of a female bacchante, 3.75ins high (now converted to a whistle), a Victorian burrwood rectangular snuff box, 3.25ins x 1.75, an 18th Century enamel rectangular box, 2.75ins x 1.5in (extensively damaged), and a small selection of other treen, etc
Lot 296
A good quality early Victorian Desk Stand comprising frosted, faceted glass inkwell with hinged cover, a seated Putto reading and holding a "torch" taperstick holder with books and scrolls scattered by his feet on a large rococo style base, diamond mark to base for 1847, 15.5cms high ++Stand lacks on fitting from beside the Putto
Lot 206
A Second War group of Five to Captain L. A. McLachlan, comprising 39-45 Star, Africa Star, France & Germany Star, 39-45 Medal and Defence Medal, complete with dog tags, Field Note Book Tropical hat and a large quantity of correspondence, Army of the Rhine cloth badge and enamelled desk plaque.
Lot 336
A Victorian gentleman's Gothic polished pine metamorphic washstand writing desk, adjustable hinged writing surface opening to reveal glazed wash basin with two inset drained soap dishes (lacking internal mirror), one side fitted with spring loaded pen drawer above single cupboard with sliding foot rest to base 69cm x 50cm x 86cm high
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