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Period: 18th Century
18th Century George III Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a very good quality 18th century George III mahogany kneehole desk, having a well figured mahogany top, above a brushing slide with a single drawer below. The desk has a ...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Bureau
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An 18th Century Georgian Mahogany Bureau Having
Well Figured Fall Flap Above Four Long Drawers With
Original Water Gilt Handles Raised On Original Bracket
Feet
(Typical of the lat...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Rare and Important Sheraton Painted Satinwood Cheveret
Located in Montreal, QC
A rare and important Sheraton period painted satinwood cheveret in original finish and with original painted floral swags and garlands. The superstructure with fitted book carrier; the stand with two short drawers above a secretaire drawer, fitted with a writing slide, with shaped under-tier and on square tapering legs.
This is a rather rare form, but to find it in satinwood, painted and in the original finish is very rare indeed. This little desk was made for personal correspondence; billets doux and was already old when Jane Austin...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
George II Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Richmond, London
A superb quality George II period kneehole desk. Great proportions, colour and patination. Great feet, stands proudly. England, circa 1750. Ready for placement and immediate use.
Wh...
Category
Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
18th century walnut and pollard oak seretaire abbatant
Located in Penzance, GB
A lovely walnut and pollard oak Queen Anne period secretaire abbatant circa 1710--1720 . This piece consists of a top frieze drawer ,and inside the fall are 10 drawers and 3 sliding ...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Small Georgian Inlaid Mahogany Slant Front Secretary Desk Bureau 1780
Located in Portland, OR
An unusually diminutive Georgian inlaid mahogany bureau, slant front desk, circa 1780.
This is a rare & unusually diminutive Georgian mahogany bureau, the fall front with a brass esc...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century French Louis XVI Writing Desk
Located in Bradenton, FL
Handsome late 18th Century French Louis XVI style writing desk with leather insert on top. Desk features a middle drawer, with three drawers on left and three drawers on right side. ...
Category
French Directoire Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century New England Queen Anne Cherry Lowboy
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th Century New England Queen Anne Cherry Lowboy
American cherry Lowboy with elegant scalloped apron from the Queen Anne period, about 1760. The top has a molded edge above three d...
Category
American Queen Anne Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Cherry
Early 18th C Queen Anne Kneehole Desk
Located in Oakville, ON
Lovely quality period piece with excellent colour and patination original hardware
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Oak, Walnut, Pine
18th Century New England Chippendale Slant Front Desk in Tiger Maple
Located in Milford, NH
A fine slant front desk in tiger maple with compartmentalized interior with eight open cubbies and three fitted drawers, over four long dovetailed drawers, each with replaced batwing...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Late 18th Century Figured Mahogany Chippendale Georgian Slant Front Desk
Located in Milford, NH
A good example of a Chippendale slant front desk with bookmatched figured mahogany veneers, a slant front which opens to a compartmentalized interior with fitted drawers and cubbies,...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique 18th Century French Oak Large Bureau With Drawers
Located in EDENSOR PARK, NSW
Parquetry detail drop front, when open shows 11 various small drawers, there is a little door that comes with a key that opens up to 3 more mini drawers, base of bureau has three ext...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
English 18th C. Spinet Case by Crang & Hancock London Converted Writing Desk
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English 18th Century Spinet Case by Crang & Hancock London Converted Writing Desk
This is a fine example of the English spinet in its most fully developed form. Rare ca. 1760 pentag...
Category
English Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Tulipwood
LATE 18th CENTURY NEOCLASSIC PAINTED FOLDING WRITING TABLE
Located in Firenze, FI
Wonderful neoclassical folding writing table in painted poplar wood. The decorations on the front and sides recall Renaissance mosaics, with brown and gray lean tempera paintings. Eq...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Poplar, Paint
French Walnut Slant Front Dest
Located in Bradenton, FL
A very attractive late 18th century French Walnut slant front desk with geometric marquetry design on the lid. Gold tooled leather writing surface on the inside of the lid over two ...
Category
French French Provincial Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
French 18th Century Louis XVI Style Mahogany Desk
Located in CANTELEU, FR
Coming from France. Immerse yourself in the luxury and refinement of Louis XVI style with this magnificent flamed mahogany roll-top desk, a piece that evokes the opulence of French r...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Marble
Antique George II period mahogany kneehole desk
Located in London, GB
A fine George II period figured mahogany Kneehole Chest, having moulded edged crossbanded cleated top above various drawers retaining original brass backplate handles. The piece wit...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Mahogany Metamorphic Chest
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A rare English Georgian Mahogany Metamorphic Chest with a slide out drawer that reveals a drafting slope. Chest has the original cast iron handles.. The chest is constructed from bea...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
George III Burr Walnut Bureau Circa 1775
Located in Flower Mound, TX
An absolutely wonderful example of a Georgian bureau with exceptional coloring and a fall front revealing a red leather writing interior, with pigeon holes, drawers, cupboard and bi...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
A Rare And Early Georgian Kneehole Bureau
Located in Skipton, GB
A rare early Georgian Kneehole Bureau of a wonderful colour and patination.
Having a well figured fall which opens to reveal three banks of oak lined dovetailed drawers, all above a ...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Oak
A Small English 18th Century Oak Secretaire Kneehole Desk
Located in Skipton, GB
A small Georgian Oak Secretaire Kneehole Desk with a lovely light honey colour. The Desk is made from quality quarter sawn Oak and the top boasts a bold reentrant corner detail. The ...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Late 18th Century Antique French Desk
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A beautiful fall front French desk. A perfect home office.
Category
French Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Circa 1780-1810 American Slant-Front Desk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1780-1810 American slant-front desk of well figured solid flame birch, cherry, and birch. Classic mix of woods. Yellow pine secondary wood, typical of the upper South (Kentucky...
Category
American Late Victorian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Birch
Desk – or secretary, cylinder, in mahogany. Late 18th century period.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Desk – or secretary – with cylinder, in mahogany. The body opens with two small handles decorated with gadroons to a convex quarter-cylinder flap revealing a paper holder with in the...
Category
French Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Slant Front Desk
Located in Huntington, NY
A Gustavian slant front desk. The upper section has eight small drawers, four cubbies, two sliding columns and a small locking door. The lower section has two small drawers over two ...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
Outstanding Quality Antique George III Mahogany Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality antique George III mahogany bureau having a figured mahogany fall with a moulded edge opening to reveal a fitted...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Other
Antique 18th Century Flip Top Flame Mahogany Secretary Desk
Located in west palm beach, FL
A fabulous vintage 18th century desk. A chic Flame Mahogany drop down desk. Incredible wood grain detail with chic inlay detail. Green felt wri...
Category
North American Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Metal
Antique Federal Cherrywood Desk and Glassdoor Bookcase
Located in Sheridan, CO
A Late Federal Cherrywood Desk and Bookcase, Circa 1830.
This unique piece includes a folding desk and make a fabulous looking compact desk with plenty of storage in bookcase above. This was possibly a clerk's desk.
Includes plenty of storage and desk...
Category
American Federal Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Carved Cherrywood Commode Scriban from Bordeaux, France
Located in Dallas, TX
A beautiful example of a period Louis XV writing desk, this cherrywood commode scriban was hand-carved in Bordeaux, France, in the 1700s. Resembling a chest of drawers with an angled...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Cherry
Small Directoire Cylinder Desk In Mahogany
Located in London, GB
A small French Directoire mahogany cylinder desk, with brass detailing throughout. The roll top hiding a witing slope with a tooled leather top and two drawers. Above, a marble galle...
Category
French Directoire Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Marble, Brass
East India Dutch Company Captains Writing Desk
By Southeast Asia
Located in London, GB
A captivating piece of history, the Dutch East Indian Captain's Writing Desk. This extraordinary early 18th-century Anglo-Indonesian table showcases the artistry of the time, carved...
Category
Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Bone, Rosewood, Walnut
George I Bureau Desk Walnut Chest Drawers
Located in Potters Bar, GB
George I Walnut Bureau.
This Bureau Stands Upon Bracket Feet and Features an Arrangement of 2 Over 2 Oak Lined Drawers.
18th Century
The Drawers and the Fall Having Herringbone Inlays.
The Interior Having an Assortment of Drawers and Pigeonholes.
The Bureau Retails its Original Handles, Escutcheons and Loper Pulls.
The Bureau is of a Good Warm Antique Walnut Colour.
Category
George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Kneehole Desk
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A wonderful knee hole desk.
Category
British Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
C1700 burr walnut kneehole bureau on original bun feet
Located in Bakewell, GB
C1700 burr walnut kneehole bureau on original bun feet.
Burr walnut bureau, of fabulous colour and patination complete with good interior and well kneehole configuration with cupboa...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
George III inlaid mahogany bureau
Located in Salisbury, GB
George III inlaid mahogany bureau
This George III inlaid mahogany bureau was made circa 1780.
It has the unusual drawer formation of a wide drawer at the top, a pair of small drawers...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Directoire Roll Top Desk
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A handsome and classically designed French Directoire “D” roll top desk. The desk is topped with a polished piece of St. Anne gris marble. Directly beneath the marble are three draw...
Category
French Directoire Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Marble
French Scriban desk, Donkey desk, Secretary -Louis XV Period - France 18th
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Magnificent donkey back desk, sloping desk from the Louis XV period from the 18th century. It opens with a flap which reveals 4 interior drawers, 1 shelf and 2 lockers as well as a s...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Early 18th Century Figured Walnut Bureau Cabinet
Located in Reepham, GB
A fine early Georgian walnut secretaire cabinet veneered throughout with book-matched figured walnut. The fall front opening to a fitted int...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Late 18th century Georgian walnut bureau
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Late 18th century Georgian walnut bureau circa 1790.
Fine quality George III period walnut bureau, fitted with a fall and 2 over 3 drawers.
Fa...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th century Bureau
Located in Penzance, GB
Here we have a very petite red walnut 1780 bureau, this piece is only 27 inches on the Carcas and 28 inches over all .
the bureau has an untouched colour, and is nice to be in red w...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Italian Louis XVI Solid Walnut Wood Antique Writing Desk
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Elegant antique Italian writing desk of the period Louis XVI, 18th century. Rare and precious solid walnut wood. Comfortable size for a practical use. The desk has elegant turned leg...
Category
Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Georgian Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality 18th Century, George III Period, Mahogany Kneehole Desk, Having Well Figured Rectangular Top Over Arrangement Of Drawers, Retaining Original Brass Handles, Surrounding Central Cupboard Door, Raised On Elegant Original Ogee Bracket Feet.
As a general rule kneehole desks like this are a smaller, more compact version of the more typically found pedestal desk, with some form of an arrangement of drawers around a central set recessed cupboard the must popular design and layout. There are of course many different designs to be found along the same theme, but as a general rule this is the typical form of an 18th century kneehole desk...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Mahogany pedestal desk
Located in Penzance, GB
Here we have a very good quality pedestal desk not the usual work type this is constructed as a one piece desk in mahogany. It has a back with mock drawers, a repeat of the front.
It...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century, Italian Veneered Wood Bureau Mazzarina
Located in IT
18th Century, Italian veneered wood Bureau Mazzarina
This Mazzarina desk was made in the Baroque period, in the early eighteenth century, in Turin, inspired by the models of furnitur...
Category
European Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Louis XVI Tulipwood Ladies Work table
Located in Essex, MA
Small work table of small scale to decorate a hall way or a small space. With many drawers and compartments. Lower shelf. Sabot feet. J.P Morgan Provenance.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Tulipwood
Lacquered Sloping Desk, Chinoiserie, Late 18th Early 19th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Large sloping desk or scriban with lacquered decoration of Chinoiserie, on a black background, with 3 drawers
The flap opens onto an interior also lacquere...
Category
Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Kentucky Butternut Ladies Desk
Located in Louisville, KY
For those with an eye and love for antiques and an interest in possible provenance, this extraordinary Kentucky-made women's writing desk should peak your interest. It is said that t...
Category
American American Colonial Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Georgian Mahogany Bachelors Chest England Circa 1790
Located in Hudson, NY
Very handsome, 18th century bachelors chest with pull out writing surface.
Made with dense hard mahogany and oak. It may be small but it is heavy and substantial. We'll make peace wi...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Oak, Mahogany
PORTUGUESE PAPER STATIONERY 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
STATIONERY D. JOSÉ 18th Century
19th century Portuguese.
in chestnut wood, with two drawers and three drawers.
Folding lid with drawers and bins.
Signs of use. Dim.: 140 x 115 x ...
Category
Portuguese Renaissance Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Antique 18th Century French Directoire Style Cylinder Desk
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions- H: 42 3/4in W: 36 1/2in D: 20 3/4in
This antique 18th century French Directoire style cylinder desk is made of the highest quality and is perfect for you and your home!...
Category
French Directoire Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Dutch Rococo Bombe Marquetry Inlaid Drop Front Desk / Secretary
Located in New York, NY
Dutch Rococo (Late 18th Century) drop front desk / secretary with elaborate foliate marquetry inlay, with the slant front folds down to create a desk surface with a green leather ins...
Category
Dutch Biedermeier Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Chippendale Secretary/Desk
Located in New Haven, CT
George III period mahogany Chinese Chippendale secretary bookcase, England, circa 1790. The original ogee bracket feet and the broken arc...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Massachusetts Mahogany Chippendale Desk with Shell Drop & Ogee Feet
Located in Milford, NH
A fine mahogany Chippendale slant front desk with serpentine case, dovetailed construction, compartmentalized interior with fan carving, v...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Georgian Style Wood & Hogan Burr Walnut Partners Desk Bench-Made in England
Located in North Salem, NY
For the person who appreciates high quality in all details. This desk will make the impreessive statement needed.
English Bench-Made Wood & Hogan Walnut Early Georgian Style Partner...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Early Antique English Georgian Secretary, circa 1750
Located in Big Flats, NY
An early antique English Georgian secretary offers lift top and drop-down desk over two long drawers, circa 1750
Measures - 29.25" x 26" x 16.25".
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
C18th Mahogany `Grendy` Kneehole Desk
By Giles Grendey
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A well made early Geo III mahogany kneehole desk in the manner of Giles Grendy, of unusual form and features. Slightly oversized it holds a presence of quality craftsmanship, with c...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Dutch Marquetry Inlaid Cylinder Desk/Bureau 18 Th Century, Bombe’ Chest Form
Located in Houston, TX
The exceptional cabinet work plus the extraordinary marquetry
Art work that is exhibited throughout this piece is very rare to
Find. The cylinder door rolls back to reveal an interior gallery with
Stepped drawers, a double interior door...
Category
German Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Swedish Neoclassical Painted Secretary Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
18th century Swedish neoclassical painted secretary desk will make the perfect addition to your home whether your decor is modern, traditional,...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Steel
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