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Period: 18th Century
Federal Period Slant-Front Desk in Cherry and Mahogany, Circa 1790
Located in Doylestown, PA
A Federal period slant-front desk with fitted interior over a bank of 4 drawers on bracket feet, in cherry and mahogany, circa 1790.
Category
American Federal Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Cherry, Mahogany
$1,600 Sale Price
28% Off
18th Century George III Mahogany Bureau Desk. Slant Front Writing Secretary.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
18th Century George III Mahogany Bureau Desk. Slant Front Writing Secretary.
This 18th century English bureau desk has 3 rows of graduated hand do...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique 18th Century George I Quality Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th Century George I quality figured walnut bureau having a quality figured walnut fall with herringbone crossbanding opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of five ...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Rococo 18th century Swedish yew and elm bureau desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Rococo 18th century yew and elm bureau desk circa 1750.
Stunning swedish rococo period bombe shaped bureau. Beautifully made from yew wood and elm, using various techniques such a...
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Elm, Yew
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
George III Bureau Desk or Secretary Chest of Mahogany from the 18th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A fine George III slant top desk or bureau secretary chest of patinated mahogany, c.1770 - an inlaid slant front drops to reveal a series of small drawers and document compartments, ...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Metal, Brass
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
$3,249 Sale Price
50% Off
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
$3,450 Sale Price
25% Off
18th Century French Louis XV Slant Front Desk
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th Century Louis XV French marquetry bureau de pente, or slant front desk, made with veneers of mahogany, rosewood and tulipwood with oak as a secondary wood. Slant front opens ...
Category
European Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Circa 1750 Early George III Period Slant Front Bureau Desk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Circa 1750 early George III period slant front bureau desk. Wood referred to at the time as "Red Walnut", with oak drawer liners. Original, fine cut-work bat-wing brass hardware. Ori...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Oak
George II Mahogany Slant Top Desk
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
George II Mahogany slant top desk, 18th century. With a single board rectangular top, single board drop front, interior with letter slots and drawers with central prospect door flank...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
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
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Outstanding Quality Antique 18th Century French Walnut Bombe Shaped Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality 18th century French walnut inlaid parquetry bombe shaped bureau having an exceptional quality walnut bombe shaped fall with inlaid parquetry opening to reveal a s...
Category
French Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Dutch 18th Century Architect’s Desk
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A versatile Dutch architect’s desk from the late 1700’s. This mahogany desk has an adjustable tilt top drafting surface with six distinct height options. The writing surface is 32 ¼”...
Category
Dutch Other Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Bureau Desk in Walnut Cartonnier Writing Office Table Provencal Rustic
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Antique Bureau Desk in Walnut Cartonnier Writing office Table Provencal Rustic . An exquisite French Provencal antique campagne Campaign High-end ...
Category
French Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Metal
George III Mahogany Slant Front Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Diminutive proportions built relatively shallow with a hinged fall front opening to a fitted interior over four drawers with brass handles. Bracket feet.
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
French Original Black Painted Portable 18th Century Writing Desk
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An original black painted portable desk from the end of the 18th century. With owner initials, the desk has a French hand-written address on the inside. ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Antique RI or CT Chippendale Mahogany Slant Front Secretary c. Late 18th Century
Located in Westfield, MA
The Chippendale Mahogany Secretary, a late 18th-century gem hailing from Rhode Island or Southern Connecticut, embodies the distinct elegance and intricate craftsmanship of the era. ...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
Georgian Mahogany Inlaid Bureau
Located in King's Lynn, GB
Here we have a beautiful Georgian (1714-1820) mahogany bureau. The top opens to reveal a fitted interior with a blue baize writing surface, pigeon holes, drawers and a hidden drawer ...
Category
British Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Rare 18th Century Georgian Period Mahogany Architect Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
This rare and elegant Georgian Architect’s desk has a ratchet top, extending drawer front, as well as storage compartments. Architect desks, m...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
$12,560 Sale Price
51% Off
Charleston Chippendale Mahogany Slant Top Desk with Fitted Interior, C. 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
Charleston Chippendale mahogany slant top writing desk with four graduated drawers, fitted interior, original brasses, and resting on the origin...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique George I Quality Figured Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
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...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
George III Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine George III period mahogany kneehole desk having richly grained top with canted corners and molded edge, the long drawer flanked by two rows of s...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
English 18th Century Georgian Mahogany Chippendale Lowboy.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English 18th Century Georgian Mahogany Chippendale Lowboy.
Circa 1780 George III period lowboy. Well figured mahogany. The lowboy, with a central arch kneehole, is designed with fou...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$1,950 Sale Price
25% Off
Early 18th Century English Walnut Veneered Stepped Interior Georgian Bureau Desk
Located in New York, NY
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 Cosulich Interiors & Antiques from a collector in Yorkshire. Georgian wood...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Metal
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Writing Desk Circa 1790
Located in Atlanta, GA
This 18th-century Swedish Gustavian writing desk, circa 1790, embodies the clean lines and restrained elegance characteristic of the Gustavian style, which was inspired by the neocla...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Venetian Louis XV Walnut Bureau Secretaire
Located in Vo', Veneto
Shaped Venetian Bureau Secretaire in Walnut
Wood Type: Walnut and walnut burl
Period: Mid 1700s
Origin: Venice - Veneto
Dimensions:
Centimeters
Hei...
Category
Italian Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Nutwood
Regency Mahogany Davenport Desk of Diminutive Size
Located in Essex, MA
Of unusual almost one half normal width with part brass gallery top with handle and hinged tooled green leather writing lid opening to a fitted interior over a case fitted with four ...
Category
English Regency Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th Century Mahogany Cylinder Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality late 18th century Georgian mahogany cylinder desk having well figured roll top, enclosing baize sliding writing surface with...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$6,553 Sale Price
20% Off
The Sir William Stephenson 18th Century George II Lacquer Chinoiserie Bureau
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
A rare and important George II period lacquer chinoiserie bureau, exquisitely decorated with gilded chinoiserie scenes on a rich black ground. Featuring intricate depictions of figur...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Gold, Silver
18th Century Maple and Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a tiger maple and maple slant front desk with compartmentalized interior, including two hidden compartments with faux split co...
Category
American Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique Quality Burr Walnut Floral Marquetry Inlaid Bombe Shaped Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th century quality burr walnut floral marquetry inlaid bombe shaped bureau having a fantastic quality large burr walnut floral marquetry inlaid bureau with a shaped fall op...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
George III Mahogany Slant Top Desk
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
George III mahogany slant top desk, 18th century. With a painted tiger striped mahogany slant top, a cock beaded drawer flanked by glides to support slant top when opened, desk inter...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Fine Quality Antique George I Figured Walnut Bureau with Original Handles
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality antique George I figured walnut bureau with original handles having a fine quality figured walnut bureau with walnut inlay stringing, 2 short and 3 long oak lined drawer...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique George III Quality Mahogany Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality mahogany bureau having a mahogany fall opening to reveal a fully fitted interior consisting of satinwood drawers, pigeon holes and a secret door to the cen...
Category
British Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Georgian Mahogany Slant Front Bureau / Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
George III figured mahogany slant front bureau/desk. Fall has moulded edge and mahogany crossbanding above four graduated drawers with original lock...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th Century walnut bureau
Located in Martlesham, GB
A lovely quality 18th Century walnut bureau, having a lovely figured fall which opens to reveal a wonderful fitted interior consisting of various drawers and compartments, a green le...
Category
British Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$1,707 Sale Price
20% Off
English Period 18th Century Queen Anne Walnut Lowboy
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English Period 18th century Queen Anne walnut lowboy.
Refined walnut Lowboy with elegant scalloped apron from the Queen Anne period, about ...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$6,720 Sale Price
30% Off
Very Rare 18th Century Maggiolini Desk
Located in Montreal, QC
Very rare 18th century Italian neoclassical desk attributed to the workshop of Giuseppe Maggiolini. The piece is composed of extensive inlay ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Mahogany Tambour Satinwood Inlaid Writing Desk, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
English mahogany tambour desk with sliding leather writing surface, interior satinwood compartmentalized drawers with the original bone knobs, five lower drawers with the original br...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
George III Mahogany Slant Lid Desk
Located in Essex, MA
From the estate of Bartlett Burnap in Palm Beach. A fine example with the finest quality mahogany.
With a slant lid fold down writing surface exposing an interior with central mirror...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Walnut reception desk with rich decorations on the sides and back, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique reception desk, probably created for a prestigious hotel, built in precious walnut wood with rich gold painted decorations on the sides...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Wood & Hogan English Bench-Made Chippendale Style Mahogany Writing Table
Located in North Salem, NY
Fine Wood & Hogan English bench-made mahogany Chippendale style three drawer writing table with tooled leather shaped top and pull out slides on each end. Old World Hand Colored Oliv...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
$9,884 Sale Price
30% Off
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.
Fall drops down onto pull out slides to ...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Federal Period Massachusetts Mahogany Secretary Desk with Cylinder Tambour
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a Federal mahogany two part secretary desk, with a dentil molded cornice surmounting an upper bookcase with two 16 pane glazed glass doors with satinwood line inlay, opening to three interior shelves, over a lower case with a cylinder tambour, opening to a compartmentalized interior with central open valanced cubbies flanked by eight fitted drawers over a felted writing surface and three long drawers with flame mahogany bookmatched veneers, line inlay, and punched oval brasses, and dovetailed construction, all supported by four splayed feet. This splendid secretary desk most likely is of MA origin and dates to circa 1790-1810 and is in very good condition, with some surface & shelf restorations, minor escutcheon and surface losses, as well as light wear commensurate with age and use. Includes a 2001 bill of...
Category
American Federal Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique 18th Century Quality Mahogany Floral Marquetry Inlaid Cylinder Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid cylinder bureau having a fantastic quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid cylinder bureau opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of ten shaped drawers, bookends and a door opening to reveal a single drawer above three long bombe...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Other
A Black Rococo Foldable Writing Desk With Drawers, Circa 18th Century Sweden
Located in Helsinki, FI
A beautiful 18th Century Rococo style writing desk in pink and black (bluish black) featuring a cuff mechanism that opens up to a writing tab...
Category
Finnish Rococo Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
$5,341 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Bureau, Mahogany, English, Georgian, Desk, 18th Century, circa 1770
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique bureau in light mahogany. An English, Georgian desk dating to the mid-18th century, circa 1770.
Quality craftsmanship in polished mahogany
Good color and grain interest throughout
Crossband decoration held in tramline ebony and boxwood stringing
Generous and comfortable working height to the fitted desk interior
Raised on splayed bracket feet with serpentine apron
Featuring four, full width, graduated drawers lined with paper
Cockbeaded, original brass locks and escutcheons, key absent
Drawers dressed with the original pressed brass, oval plate loop handles
A pair of stout lopers withdraw to support the fall
Fitted interior desk space with quality, olive green, blind tooled leather skiver
A suite of eight stationery drawers over eight cubby holes
The smooth sliding drawers in flame mahogany dressed...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Classical Charles X Burled Mahogany Secretaire a Abattant
Located in Miami, FL
A dramatic Charles X fall front secretary in astounding burled mahogany veneer. The original fossilized marble top is supported by an elliptical molding. The main body contains one u...
Category
French Charles X Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Mahogany Georgian Architect's Drafting Drawing Desk Table Chest 1780
Located in Portland, OR
A rare George II mahogany architect's desk/chest, circa 1750.
The desk/ top slides forward, thus allowing the sitter to work, the top having a drafting table that has an easel support to place the top at three different heights, the highest being 47" floor to top. The chest having a plan drawer which is flanked by two pen drawers...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$5,213 Sale Price
24% Off
18th Century Italian Desk Commode
Located in Miami, FL
Traditional 18th Century Italian desk commode from the Piemonte region made from solid walnut.
A fine Italian walnut and inlaid bureau with drop leaf dating back to 18th century, w...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
George I Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
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 ...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Swedish Gustavian Slant Front Desk
Located in Huntington, NY
An unusual trapezoid-shaped Swedish Gustavian slant front desk. Front opens to reveal an ample work surface with six cascading drawers sitti...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
Italian Baroque Walnut and Bone Inlaid Writing Bureau / Chest
Located in Essex, MA
An impressive piece recently purchased from a local family that had it for many years and had inherited it from their grandparents. With rectangular top decorated with trailing flowe...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Bone, Walnut
Walnut Chippendale Slant-Front Desk
Located in West Chester, PA
Desk with bold serpentine interior, document drawers with turnings and flames, and block-and-shell prospect door with carved tulip. Case with four gra...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Tulipwood
New England Hepplewhite Step Back Tambour Flip Top Secretary Desk
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American Hepplewhite tambour secretary flip top desk. Composed of mahogany solids and figured mahogany veneers along with contrasting patterned string inlays and rosewood cross bandi...
Category
American Hepplewhite Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
$5,440 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Walnut Kneehole Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very attractive early 18th century, George I Period, walnut kneehole desk of diminutive proportions, having extremely well figured quarter veneered, crossbanded top with elegant re-entrant corners, over arrangement of seven drawers retaining original brasswear, flanking central cupboard door with original brass hinges, raised on original bracket feet.
In general kneehole deeks are regarded as 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 being the typically found form. There are of course various different designs to be found along the same theme, but as a general rule that is the form you will usually find in a georgian kneehole desk...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$9,031 Sale Price
27% Off
Dutch Rococo Bombe Marquetry Inlaid Drop Front Desk / Secretary
Located in Queens, 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
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