There are 147561 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribeAn Edwardian rosewood and marquetry writing desk, early 20th century, the upper section with pierced brass three-quarter gallery, above two pairs of small drawers, above the rectangular top with bowed central section, gilt tooled leather inset, above an arrangement of seven drawers around the central kneehole, on square tapering legs with spade feet, brass caps and castors, 95cm high, 108cm wide, 61cm deep
A mahogany pedestal desk, in George III style, late 19th/early 20th century, the upper section with a pierced brass gallery above an arrangement of pigeon holes, flanked on each side by three small drawers, the tooled leather inset above an arrangement of nine drawers around the central kneehole, on plinth bases, 106cm high, 137cm wide, 82cm deep (damage)
A late 19th century satinwood and marquetry Carlton House desk, in George III style, circa 1890, the marquetry depicting neoclassical motifs throughout, with pierced brass gallery above an arrangement of six small drawers, flanked by doors and downswept lidded compartments opening to a fitted interior with divisions, above a tooled leather inset and three frieze drawers, on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors, 105cm high, 123cm wide, 59cm deep
19th Century Continental porcelain Desk Stand, galleried back painted with a courting scene by a river, behind an open-work gallery, fitted twin inkwells, flanking a central compartment, the lids all with snake handles, the front fitted with a drawer with a similar handle, decorated all-over with landscape scenes and flower sprays and on three paw feet, 28cms, (11").
A group of three early 19th century desk seals with intaglio seals of John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl and later Marquess Camden, KG, the first a gilt mounted cornelian and ivory handled desk seal, the oval cornelian ingtalio engraved with the arms of the Most Hon. John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess Camden, KG, accollee with Pratt quartering Jeffreys with Molesworth in pretence, to a knopped turned ivory handle, 9.5cm high; the second a steel and ivory handle desk seal, the seal intaglio engraved with the arms (1st April 1794- 14th August 1799) of the Rt. Hon. John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Earl Camden; the third with a coronet cypher of two addorsed letters C below the Marquess' coronet for Marquess Camden, dating from 1812 to the present day, on a turned wooden handle. The seals offered in this lot were cut at different times during the life of John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl and later Marquess Camden (1759-1840). He married Francis Molesworth in 1876, and inherited the Earldom in 1794. During his life he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1795-8), Knight of the Garter (1799) and Chancellor of Cambridge University (1834-40). He advanced to the Marquessate in 1812.
A mahogany and brass mounted cylinder desk, circa 1900. in the Louis XVI manner, the rouge marble top with pierced gallery above three short drawers and a tambour fall enclosing a fitted interior with pull out slide and three frieze drawers, on fluted tapering legs the whole decorated with trailing neo-Classical mounts 89cm wide, 105cm high, 59cm deep
A mid 18th century mahogany gentleman's kneehole desk. the hinged top with moulded edge enclosing a fitted interior, with offset divisions around a ratchet slope (formerly mirror), the full width simulated drawer above an ogee arched drawer and recessed cupboard between two banks of four short lipped drawers, with brass handles, on shaped bracket feet (some alterations) 86cm wide, 86cm high, 51cm deep
A Victorian oak Davenport-type writing desk, circa 1870, the top with three-quarter galleried back opening to reveal a segmented well for stationary, ink bottles and a pen tray above a writing slope with replacement Rexine insert opening to reveal a satin veneered interior with two true and two false short drawer fronts fitted with ebony knob handles on a side-facing pedestal of four short drawers fitted with turned wooden handles behind two front corner turned tapering fluted supports on a concave fronted platform and brass casters, 57 cm wide, 87 cm high, 59 cm deep
A mahogany writing desk, first quarter 20th century, the rectangular hinged top with nickle plated Branah lock opening to reveal a fitted interior with stationary rack to the interior of the lid with central time piece in a circular aperture flanked by two rectangular calendar frames over an arrangement of five short drawers with Art Nouveau-style nickle plated handles above a slide-out writing surface with leather pen holders over two short drawers fitted with plated handles on four square tapering legs terminating in splay pointed feet, united by a plain H stretcher, 66 cm wide, 86 cm high, 45 cm deep
A Victorian walnut and amboyna banded Davenport-type writing desk, the three quarter galleried hinged lid to the stationary compartment back over a sloping writing surface revealing two true and two false drawer fronts, on a side facing pedestal of four short drawers fitted with turned wooden handles, the sloping front on front corner-pierced brackets and spiral-turned pilasters on proud front feet and white glazed pot casters, 54 cm wide, 83 cm high, 52 cm deep
Loading...
