Early 18th Century Desks

Lovely quality period piece with excellent colour and patination original hardware

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...

A fine early Georgian walnut secretaire cabinet veneered throughout with book-matched figured walnut. The fall front opening to a fitted int...

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...

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...

Very rare George I double dome walnut bureau bookcase, it is of a smaller than the regular size and so can fit in most homes. This George I walnut bureau bookcase...

c.1800, England, Regency brass inlaid rosewood lap desk in the manner of George Bullock. Rectangular box with double-hinged lid, opening to tooled navy leather and gold embossed writ...

A superb and exceptionally well proportioned early 18th century figured walnut ‘pagoda topped’ double dome bureau bookcase, circa 1720 England. The upper section is surmounted with what is believed to be the original solid walnut finials and soft bevelled mirror plates, opening to a removal bank of walnut veneered and feather banded drawers, cantered by pigeonholes below two shelves. Candle slides are neatly stowed below the bookcase doors to reflect the light. To the moulded bureau, the fall opens to reveal pigeonholes, long and short asymmetric drawers each beautifully veneered in figured walnut and feather banded, cantered by a cupboard door which neatly conceals an open compartment and drawer. Below the fall, two short and two long graduating oak lined drawers are each book-matched in superb sections of hand-cut figured walnut veneers over bun feet. It should be noted that this exceptional desk and bookcase, is not only of the finest cuts of figured walnut veneer but exquisitely made at the pinnacle of design which had gradually evolved predominantly in London, during the late 17thand early 18thcentury. The actual description 'desk-and-bookcase' appears to be first recorded in the accounts of the Royal cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (fl.1680-d.1715) who supplied several for the Royal Household from 1710 (Bowett, op. cit.), and another described as 'a walnut writing desk, the top for books and patons and glass in the doors asked' for the 5th Earl of Salisbury, Hatfield House.  Another maker of this form of desk was the London cabinet-maker John Gumley (1691-1727) who advertised in Richard Steele's Lover on April 24 1714 that he 'hath taken for a Ware-house, and furnished all the upper part of the New Exchange in the Strand' continuing with an extensive list of his stock including 'Desks and Bookcases.' In 1714 he supplied one of these in walnut to James 1st Duke of Montrose for the sum of £11. Russian cabinetwork of this period was strongly influenced by Tsar Peter I return to Russia after his studies in London. He subsequently sent twenty-four cabinetmakers who were working in Amsterdam to London to train as furniture makers. One of these cabinetmakers named Fedor Martynov made furniture for the Empress Anna Ioannovna. Martynovs drawings are almost identical to the present piece. Literature Mallett’s Great English Furniture, London: Bullfinch Press 1991, p.248, fig 287, by Lanto Synge, English Furniture 1660-1714 From Charles II to Queen Anne, by Dr Adam Bowett, Woodbridge: Antique Collector’s Club, 2002 Chapter 7 Case Furniture 1689–1714 pp.221-223 fig. 7:53 A walnut bureau bookcase of the same form and period sold from the private collection of Patricia Kluge...

This exquisite English walnut bureau hails from the remarkable Queen Anne period, dating back to approximately 1710. It exudes an air of rarity a...

Period early 18th century George II Yew Secretary bookcase. Original Mirrors and interior. Integrity throughout. Beautiful compartmented interior. Original carved and gilded framing around mirrors. Retains original extremely high quality Georgian hardware...

AN EXCEPTIONAL, GEORGE I, BURR WALNUT & FEATHER BANDED, DOUBLE-DOMED BUREAU BOOKCASE WITH ORIGINAL BEVELLED MIRROR PLATES, GILDED FINIALS, FROM THE COLL...

An extraordinarily rare English Queen Ann Walnut metamorphic chest of drawers with pull out writing desk made in the early 18th century. This remarkable George I period queen Ann chest...

Rectangular cornice over a single door with mirror, the desk section with fold down writing surface opening to a nicely fitted interior and sliding panel opening to a well, all over ...

A very fine George I period walnut and feather banded bureau bookcase, circa 1720, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors, ope...

Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut fall with herringbone crossbanding opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of five walnut drawer...

A superior quality Queen Anne period, burr walnut bureau in superb condition and of outstanding colour with curly grain figuring and deep, rich patina. The shallow sloping fall enclo...

An especially fine quality George II period burr walnut kneehole desk with quartered 'bookmark-veneered' top with herringbone inlay and cross-band...

A small early 18th century red lacquer chinoiserie decorated commode with a desk compartment, the hinged slant front - flip top, supported by pull-out...

George I period walnut bureau or desk on stand, of compact proportions, ca 1720. This small early Georgian desk is veneered in walnut an...

A delightful early 18th century George I Period Elm  bureau of diminutive proportions having well figured fall front enclosing drawers and pigeon holes over two short and three lo...

For sale is a good quality George I walnut secretary bookcase, having a domed cornice above a bevelled mirror door enclosing two shelves. The...

An English early 18th century walnut secrétaire kneehole desk. George I period (1714-1727), c 1720. Of exceptional waxed honey color and lovely old patina, with well-matched veneers. With a quarter-veneered top. Six short drawers below a hinged fall revealing a writing section, all surrounding a central recessed cupboard. There is a small, shaped pull-out drawer fitted in the apron. All finely inlaid with herringbone lines. Raised on its original bracket feet. Swan-neck handles probably fitted later in the 18th century. Locks and keys are mostly original. Walnut veneered and crossbanded sides. Nb. Having a fitted secrétaire drawer distinguishes this antique walnut kneehole desk...

Nicely figured walnut, rectangular quarter veneer top over top over a drawer and kneehole with door and small drawer flanked by drawers raised on bracket feet.

Exceptional condition for this English secretaire/chest/desk of George I period. The finish in figured burl walnut adds aesthetic beauty to the history of this piece acquired by Cosu...

A Chinese export lacquer bureau on stand decorated with an unusual polychrome flower design This Chinese lacquer bureau on stand was made in ...

A French Regence fruitwood bureau slant front desk with fitted interior, shaped apron with shell carving ending cabriole legs.

An early 18th century William and Mary Burled walnut veneer desk with book rest and side handles for transport. Pulls were replaced early on as styles changed and are early 18th cent...

A walnut kneehole desk with quarter veneered top above an unusual fitted secretaire drawer. The kneehole with two banks of drawers all retaining the original brass handles.   

Early 18th Century Marquetry Desk-Commode of Italian Origin, having three drawers, the top one having a fall-front featuring a desk compartment fitted...

This very fine and fully restored Queen Anne slant front desk was crafted in burled walnut on an oak carcass. This secondary wood choice wa...

Baroque bureau cabinet or desk, Baroque, Northern Italy, Lombardy, circa 1720. Walnut burl wood and fruitwood veneer and inlaid with reserves and fillets. Front with hinged wri...

An early eighteenth century veneered walnut bureau of a good original colour and patina.

Antique George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut crossbanded fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of six drawers, six pigeon holes and a ...