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18th Century English Walnut Writing Table Desk / Dressing Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
An attractive English walnut writing table or dressing table with brass hardware.
Solid walnut and walnut veneer over solid oak secondary wood.
Having burl walnut drawer fronts with...
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18th Century Spanish Walnut Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
An 18th century walnut table. Soundly constructed from walnut, with original hand forged wrought iron braces and classical lyre shaped legs.
Wonderfully worn and aged patina, some ...
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Antique 18th Century Spanish Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Spanish Walnut Library Table Desk with Two Drawers, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exuberant library table or desk having a walnut molded edge around the top, two drawers, and fluidly carved legs and support braces. Spanish, 18th century.
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Antique Early 18th Century Spanish Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Mixed Woods Marquetry Inlaid Writing Table, Northern Italian, Late 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine Magilini style walnut and intricately inlaid fruitwood, walnut, black walnut, satinwood and rosewood center or writing table with one drawer on elegant tapering legs. Beautiful ...
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
George II Burl Walnut Lowboy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Walnut and burl walnut lowboy with crossbanding around the top, satinwood inlay on the front, and having original brass pulls. Standing on cabriole legs ending on Spanish feet...
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Antique 18th Century English George II Lowboys
Materials
Brass
English Mahogany Ship's Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mahogany ship's desk with inset black leather sloped writing surface, opening to reveal a fitted interior with three drawers and separate drawer for ink and quills...
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Antique 19th Century English Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th Century French Louis XVI Walnut Writing Table or Desk, Circa 1780
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Louis XVI carved walnut writing table with a tooled inset brown leather top, standing on elegant cabriole legs ending on cloven hoof feet. Having single center drawer with a decora...
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Italian Parquetry Inlaid Writing Table Desk, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
An exceptional parquetry inlaid writing table with Neoclassical designs, inlay with satinwood, black walnut, and fruitwood. Having a single center drawer, and supported on tapering l...
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Desks and Writing Tables
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Fruitwood, Satinwood, Walnut
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Antique George III Mahogany Library Writing Table Desk, 18th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a fine antique George III mahogany and marquetry library table, circa 1780 in date.
The table features beautiful floral and scrolling foliate marquetry throughout, with flame mahogany marquetry panels and gonçalo alves crossbanding.
The rectangular top is fitted with the original emerald green gold tooled inset leather writing surface above a pair of crossbanded frieze drawers, raised on square tapered legs.
It is freestanding, finished on all sides, so that it can stand freely in the middle of a room, making it extremely suitable for a large home or office.
Complete with original brass handles, working locks and keys.
THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION.
Condition:
In excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, and only shows minor signs of wear commensurate with age and use.
Please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 76 x width 144 x depth 84
Dimensions in inches:
Height 29.9 x width 56.7 x depth 33.1
Marquetry
is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, pewter or brass silver) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.
The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati"-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura, for the "hardstones" used: onyx, jasper, cornelian, lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique.
Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV. Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle, who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs.
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