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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period Regency Davenport Desk 1815
Located in Potters Bar, GB
This Handsome Davenport Stands Upon Turned Feet.
Having an Arrangement of 4 Oak Lined Graduated Drawers Which Retain Their Original Knobs.
Period Regency - circa 1815
The Interior Fe...
Category
Regency Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Oak
18th Century Swedish Bombe Shaped Bureau Signed by Eric Holm
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
18th Century Swedish period Rococo bombe shaped bureau.
Signed by the renowned Stockholm furniture maker Eric Holm.
Fall front desk upends to work space and storage drawer and shelv...
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Satin Mahogany and Rosewood Secretary
Located in Savannah, GA
This is a secretary / bureau/ desk made in England, circa 1780. The top and the fall have a rosewood banding with a string inlay of satinwood and Satin Mahogany in the interior of th...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Satinwood
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 and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
Victorian Desk Mahogany Writing Table 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Victorian mahogany 5 drawer writing table
This writing table has an arrangement of 5 mahogany lined drawers with turned knobs
Circa 1860
The writing table is raised upon ring turned ...
Category
Victorian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Italian Mid-18th Century Genovese St. Hand Painted Cabinet / Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful and most decorative Italian mid 18th century Genovese st. hand painted cabinet/desk. The desk is raised by lovely scalloped serpentine shaped supports below two lovely ha...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood
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 bible ends. All above 2 short over three long drawers and standing on bracket feet. Marks, knocks, scratches, abrasions consistent with age and use. Old marks, some openings to joints, some chips, losses, replacements to veneers and inlays. Overall solid and stable. Handles are replacements throughout. The interior marked and warn, and with signs of marks and stains to the writing surface.
Provenance: The Fulwood Collection
The Fulwood Collection comes from a Grade II listed rectory in the North of England. Formerly the childhood home of Sir Douglas Bader. The rectory was acquired by the late owner approximately 15 years ago. The house was formerly split into two separate houses, and with care he lovingly refurbished it back into a single house and refurnished in a blend of the Grand Tour style with Welsh and English provincial tastes. This property contained fine furniture, works of art, paintings, ceramics and other miscellaneous items some of which have been purchased by “The Englishman’s Antiques”
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
Georgian Style Walnut Fall-Front Bureau with Marquetry, Late 18th Century
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
This elegant fall-front bureau is a beautiful example of late 18th-century English craftsmanship in the Georgian style, dating circa 1780–1800. Traditionally made in mahogany, this p...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Bronze
English Queen Anne, Early 18th Century Red Chinoiserie Lacquer Desk / Commode
Located in Troy, NY
A small early 18th century red lacquer chinoiserie decorated commode with a desk compartment, the hinged slant front - flip top, supported by pull-out...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Dutch Marquetry Bombé Bureau
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a top quality late 18th century Dutch Marquetry Bureau. The bureau is profusely inlaid all over with various birds and flowers, butterflies etc. The fall front opens to r...
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
George III Mahogany Tambour Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nice old piece very nicely polished and tuned up in good working order. Rectangular top with tambour roll top opening to expose a pull out writing surface with adjustable ratcheted c...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
William and Mary Kneehole Desk Walnut Bureau 1700
Located in Potters Bar, GB
William and Mary walnut kneehole bureau
Here we have a very unusual designed kneehole bureau
Having an arrangement of 6 oak lined drawers and a central cupboard with decorative drop ...
Category
William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
Bureau Desk Fall Front Japanning Tortoishell Gilding Chinoiserie
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare, late-17th century / early-18th century, fall front bureau with gilded Chinoiserie Japanning & faux tortoishell ground.
“Before Japan was made in England, the imitation of tortoise-shell was much in request for cabinets, tables and the like“. John Stalker and George Parker, a treatise on Japanning and varnishing (originally published in 1668), Alec Tiranti, 1998, p. 75.
- This bureau is decorated in one of the most fashionable styles of the Baroque period, Chinese lacquer with gilded decoration and tortoiseshell imitation ground and would have been a statement piece within the interior.
- The colours, which have become muted from atmospheric conditions over time, are still striking and colourful evoking warm and richness.
- It has come from a private collection where it has reputedly been for many generations which explains why it is in such original condition retaining the original hinges, lock and catches.
- Pieces of imitation tortoishell with gilded lacquer decoration are rare, the last piece I handled was a chest of drawers about 20 years ago.
- Tortoishell furniture was only affordable by royalty and the elite and the height of fashion in the 17th century, as was producing things that were not what they seemed. One of the oldest examples of faux material from the Baroque period is at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen where, in 1667, the royal bed...
Category
Italian Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Lacquer
16TH CENTURY MUSEUM QUALITY EXHiBITION HAND CARVED ITALIAN CASSONE DESK TABLE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely stunning, very large, Exhibition / Museum quality, hand carved 16th Century southern Italian...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Oak
C1830 Louis Philippe Mahogany Document Desk with Leather Faced Drawers
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
C1830 Louis Philippe Mahogany Document Desk with Leather Faced Drawers. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with questions.
Desk Height: 28.5
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th Century Dutch Satinwood Marquetry Secretaire a Abattant
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An 18th century Dutch satinwood abbatant or drop front desk, with gilded beading and inlaid brass stringing. The case also has various exotic woods inlaid into the satinwood. There i...
Category
Dutch Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Satinwood
$10,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Architect’s Partner’s Desk, Late 18th Century
Located in London, GB
A Late 18th Century Architect’s Partner’s Desk, of Exceptional Scale
With ratchetted rectangular Moroccan red leather top above eleven drawers surrounding a central kneehole, the re...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Abalone
Antique Louis XV Bureau Plat or Leather Top Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive 18th Century Louis XV bureau plat handcrafted in classic style with mahogany and kingwood, featuring the original tooled oxblood leather top on a brass bound case with thr...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Brass
Bureau cylindre
Located in PARIS, FR
Bureau à cylindre en acajou et placage d'acajou moucheté toutes faces, filets d'ébène et ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré et de laiton, le dessus de marbre blanc associé en par...
Category
European Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Bronze
$83,564
Fine George III Diminutive Mahogany and Satinwood Secretaire
Located in Essex, MA
With rectangular cornice over a pair of gothic mullioned doors enclosing a fitted interior, the base with drawer enclosing a fitted desk interior all over three drawers ending on spl...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Italian 18th Century Louis XV Period Walnut, Rosewood and Bone Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fine Italian 18th century Louis XV period walnut, rosewood, and boneTuscan desk. The desk is raised on cabriole legs below the wide central drawer and pullout with a leather writin...
Category
Italian Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Ivory, Rosewood, Walnut
Very Fine 18th Century George I Period Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
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...
Category
British George I Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mirror, Walnut, Burl
Important George II Figured Walnut Caddy Kneehole Desk Circa 1730-1740, England
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Important George II Figured Walnut Kneehole Desk
Circa 1730-1740, England
This exceptional piece, attributed to London cabinet maker Giles Grendey, stands as a superb example of fine Georgian craftsmanship.
The quarter veneered caddy moulded top with cross banded and feather banded detailing. Set above a lap moulded brushing slide, one long, oak-lined drawer flanked by six short drawers on either side of a central cupboard, all cross...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Rare 1794 George III Gillows of Lancaster Double Sided Postmasters Sorting Desk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare 1794 George III Gillows Lancaster twin pedestal double sided postmasters desk i...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$19,358 Sale Price
30% Off
18th Century English Mahogany Leather Top Partners Desk with Carved Birds
Located in Milford, NH
A fine proportion mahogany rectangular partners desk with brown leather top with a crossbanded border with delicate carving, surmounting a frieze with two fitted and cockbeaded document drawers...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Brass
Bargueño or desk with bridge base. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th c
Located in Madrid, ES
Bargueño or wastepaper basket with bridge base. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century.
In need of some restoration.
Bargueño or covered waste-paper basket placed on a support ...
Category
Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Other
Small English Painted Bureau
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Small 18th Century English bureau with an antiqued painted blue finish and ncie fitted interior. 1780
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Leather, Oak
1790 Gillows Cuban Hardwood Library Secretaire Desk Writing Table I Bramah Lock
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare circa 1790 George III Library writing desk secrataire by Gillows of Lancaster and London
A rare find, looking through Gillows of ...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$19,358 Sale Price
30% Off
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Cartonnier Desk
Located in Paris, FR
Late 18th century piece of furniture called a “cartonnier” in wood veneer and used for storing papers. Each section of the piece features a frame of gilt bronze, fluted stripes. Its ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Bronze
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 and Earlier Desks
Materials
Tulipwood
French Late 18th Century Louis XV Period Oak Desk/Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A charming and very elegant French late 18th century Louis XV period oak desk/side table. The table is raised by lovely slender cabriole legs with fine hoof feet. The apron displays ...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Brass
Large Antique George II Mahogany Desk c. Mid 18th Century
Located in Westfield, MA
This Large Antique George II Mahogany Desk, crafted in the mid-18th century, is an exceptional example of Georgian design, combining both form and function with timeless beauty. The ...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Leather Topped and Brass Trimmed Louis XVI Writing Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
French Louis XVI walnut writing table, the leather surface with molded brass trim over three oak lined drawers, retaining original gilt bronze laurel and vine hardware, with pull-out...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Lady's Dressing Table Kneehole Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A walnut kneehole of high quality on bracket feet with walnut English veneer. The drawers have a simple cross banding with a lip edge mounting.
Top has a Tobacco brown leather inser...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood
English Mahogany 18th Century Slant Top Desk
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is a Classic George III mahogany slant top desk. The slant front drops to reveal a series of small drawers and document compartments over ...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
George II Red Walnut Bureau
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality George II red walnut bureau, with a hinged fall enclosing a well fitted interior of drawers and pigeon holes and secret compartments, with four drawers bel...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
Fine George II Red Walnut Desk c. 1750
Located in Heathfield, GB
A particularly fine and handsome English George III desk of one long over two banks of three drawers and with a slender drawer above the kneehole. All made in solid red walnut with...
Category
George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Double Sided Desk Louis XV Walnut Attributed J.F Hache
By Jean-Francois Hache
Located in Marseille, FR
Double sided desk Louis XV walnut attributed to J.F Hache (1730-1796) dating from the eighteenth century. Very good state of conservation despite traces of restoration on the drawers...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Quality Mahogany Floral Marquetry Inlaid Bombe Shaped Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid bombe shaped bureau
having a quality floral marquetry fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of drawers, p...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Other
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 and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$6,581 Sale Price
30% Off
Baroque Bureau-Desk, Northern Italy, Lombardy, circa 1720
Located in CH
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...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Writing Desk Book Detail / Pull-Out Writing Surface
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Writing Desk Book Detail / Pull-Out Writing Surface
Beautiful piece purchased in France. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with questi...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Marble
George III Late 18th Century Mahogany Tambour Writing Desk
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A late 18th century George III tambour writing desk in mahogany, featuring a roll-top tambour door that opens to a fitted interior with drawers and pigeonholes. The pull-out writing ...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
English Chippendale Period George II Red Walnut Kneehole Desk Dressing Table
Located in Glasgow, GB
A good Chippendale period mid 18th century red walnut kneehole writing desk dressing table of small proportions and dating to circa 1740-50. With a lift-up top featuring a fully fit...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Scandanvian Rococo Giltwood and Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive 18th Century Rococo carved giltwood and Walnut bureau bookcase, having wonderful scrolling foliate and plume decoration to the cornice, a single mirror door with gi...
Category
Scandinavian Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut, Giltwood
Venetian Painted Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare, Venetian, serpentine painted writing desk/coiffure table. Six drawers with 4 original keys. Hand painted foliate swags decorate the sides which meet relief profiles
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood, Paint
$29,800
French 18th Century Louis XV Period French Desk in Kingwood and Tulipwood
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely high quality French 18th century Louis XV period kingwood, tulipwood and ormolu desk, signed ‘Bernard Ebeniste’. This most elegant desk is raised by slender cabriole leg...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Ormolu
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 devel...
Category
English Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Tulipwood
$6,000 Sale Price / set
20% Off
George III Period Mahogany Fitted Desk Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
An 18th century mahogany desk or sometimes called architects desk, with fitted top drawer containing a baize lined wiring surface below which is a fitted section contains alphabet inlaid letter boxes The double top drawer slides out on hidden rollers and the baize section then slides back.
Original swan neck brass handles and fine flame mahogany. finished with dummy drawers to the back making this a free standing desk.
A model is in the Gillow design...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Brass
Late 18th Century Tuscan Bureau
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Late 18th century Tuscan bureau.
Dating from the late 18th Century, this Italian painted bureau originates from Tuscany.
The slope top is line i...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood
Early Georgian antique walnut bureau
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
An early eighteenth century veneered walnut bureau of a good original colour and patina.
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
New England Tiger Maple Slant Front Desk circa 1780-90
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a New England curly or tiger maple slant front desk with compartmentalized interior, including a central fan carved pros...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier 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 and Earlier Desks
Materials
Wood
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Exceptional Rare and Fine Padauk Wood Bureau in the Chippendale Manner, c. 1780
Located in Heathfield, GB
In superb original condition, with a fantastic colour, and retaining the original fine quality brass hardware. This is a very high quality solid Padouk bureau...
Category
Chippendale Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Padouk
Mahogany Bureau
Located in London, England
Mahogany bureau with fitted interior on bracket feet. Circa 1780
H 110cm x W 101cm x D 53cm
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Mahogany
$2,710
French 18th Century Louis XVI Period Mahogany and Ormolu Desk/Writing Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very high quality French 18th century Louis XVI period mahogany and ormolu desk or writing table, signed C. Mauter. The desk is raised by elegant circular tapered fluted legs with fine fitted ormolu sabots and richly chased fitted foliate chandelles. Above each leg are lovely fluted block reserves with additional finely detailed fitted chandelles. The scalloped shaped apron displays three drawers, each decorated with most attractive ormolu keyhole escutcheons. Each side displays a recessed panel while the back showcases the beautiful mahogany grain. Above is the tan colored fitted leather writing surface with a fine foliate gold tooled band...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Fruitwood and Ormolu Library Table/Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and large-scale French 18th century Louis XV period ebonized fruitwood and ormolu library table/desk. The desk is raised by elegant cabriole ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French Marquetry Slant Top Ladies Writing Desk, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
French marquetry ladies slant top three-drawer writing desk with floral motif inlay, flanking step back interior drawers, leather writing surface, carved scalloped skirt, original or...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Gold, Ormolu
William & Mary Oyster Veneered Kneehole Desk in the Manner of Thomas Pistor
By Thomas Pistor
Located in Milford, NH
A great example of a William & Mary oyster veneered and feather banded kneehole desk in kingwood and rosewood in the manner of Thomas Pistor, with hinged top and front opening to a f...
Category
English William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Baroque Secretaire, Lake Constance Region
Located in Belmont, MA
18th century baroque secretaire, Lake Constance region. Two-drawer body on curved square feet, foldable desk, inside six drawers, a wide shelf and a sec...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks
Materials
Walnut
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