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Click here to subscribeA Victorian oak and pollard inlay pedestal writing desk, circa 1870, a two higher section with an oak gallery above two short drawers with a long drawer attaching, above an oak writing surface on four short drawers on each pedestal with a long drawer in between on bracket feet. H 100cm x W 115cm x D 57cmProvenance: originally belonging to Francis Darwin, a distant cousin of Charles Darwin. Offered with a transcript of Darwin Pedigrees by R.B. Feeman
A breakfront kneehole desk by Lamb of Manchester, in burr elm with ebonised banding, the pedestals both with cupboards, three drawers above, the top leather lined, 130cm wide, 57cm deep CONDITION REPORT: There are no opposing drawers/cupboards but the back is veneered so it could be freestanding. A few water marks to writing surface. Ink spillages to interior of drawers and cupboards. Locks marked J Beardmore. The loose shelf from each plinth is missing. The handles to the plinth doors look slightly less quality than the drawer handles, I am unsure if they are replacements or if they were meant to be that way. They have a painted surface which looks a bit chewed as well.
An 18th Century carved Flemish panel, the Virgin with the Holy Innocents, two others St Peter and St John, the front and side panels of a Victorian prayer desk, the panels 60cm x 53cm and 62cm x 25cm, the desk 75cm wide/Provenance:- Holy Innocents Church, Highnam, Faculty granted 20th April 2020/see illustration
A French Empire-style marble and ormolu desk stand, the second half of the 19th century, mounted with a bronze bust of Napoleon after Canova flanked with bronze lidded ink wells, the stand on lion paw feet, the bust with a signature to the reverse, 39cm wide 22cm deep 24cm highCondition report: One ink well lid is loose
A Louis XVI mahogany marquetry and parquetry bureau a cylindre, attributed to Francois Linke after the model by Jean Henri Riesener, with gilt metal mounts, three-quarter gallery, cylinder front enclosing drawers and stationary shelves, retractable writing surface, fitted with three frieze drawers, square tapering legs, width 112cm, depth 65cm, height 108cm.Footnote: Reisener's writing desk was delivered on 21 December 1784 for the closet of Queen Marie Antoinette's new apartment in the Palais de Tuileries. It was made in a style worthy of the sovereign. The purplewood, sycamore, and rosewood veneer was decorated with gilt bronze ornaments including four low reliefs depicting allegories (Music twice, Painting, and Sculpture) and two escutcheons representing baskets of flowers.
A reproduction French kneehole twin pedestal writing desk with decorative applied gilt metal mounts and inlaid detail, the rectangular top with inset leather panel, rounded corners and fitted with an arrangement of nine frieze drawers on squat turned, tapered supports, 200 cm wide x 90 cm deep x 77 cm in height
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