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Period: 19th Century
Unusual Early 19th Century Biedermeier Library Desk, German or Austrian
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
A very attractive early 19th century library desk, veneered an precious satinwood, with ebonised banding, the freeze with three drawers to th...
Category
German Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Fruitwood, Satinwood
Venetian Rococo Style Walnut Secretary Lacquered by Ira Yeager
By Ira Yeager
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic late 19th century Italian secretaire cabinet or bookcase made in the Venetian Rococo taste. Crafted from walnut the two-part case features a speckled lacquer finish centered by a cartouche shaped window with a painted bust by artist Ira Yeager (American 1938-2022). The bureau cabinet has a bombe shaped dresser base with a drop front diminutive writing table. The drop front has two storage drawers and a small pigeon hole storage above. Below the desk are two small drawers and two large storage drawers with rocaille patinated brass pulls. The dresser is supported by small cabriole legs with scrolled feet. The dresser is surmounted by a bookcase with a painted door depicting a nobleman holding a chicken. The painting is painted on board titled "Venezia" and signed by Yeager with a fictitious date of 1725. The door opens to a three-shelf bookcase. The case is topped with a pediment having a cartouche shaped window and corniced top. The entire secretary is speckled with a mustard yellow tone over a taupe background. This whimsical cabinet...
Category
Italian Rococo Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
$14,000 Sale Price
22% Off
French Empire Escritoire Chest Desk 1880 Mahogany
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Classic French Empire escritoire / desk
Crafted from mahogany with ormolu fittings
Great space saving piece as both a desk and a chest of drawers
We ...
Category
French Provincial Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Style, Marquetry, Leather, Writing Desk, France, 19th.
Located in Manhasset, NY
Louis XVI Style, Marquetry, Leather, Writing Desk, France, 19th.
A marquetry, patinated bronze and tooled leather top bureau plat produced in 19th century France having three pull o...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Napoleon III Period Ebony and Brass Inlaid Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional French 19th century Napoleon III period ebony and brass inlaid desk. The oval shaped desk is raised by elegant slender circular tapered fluted legs with fine ormolu bo...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
French Kingwood and Ormolu-Mounted Bonheur Du Jour, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A French kingwood quarter veneered and ormolu-mounted bonheur du jour with Sevres-style oval floral plaques inset to the cupboard doors, two drawers to t...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Sheraton Pedestal Desk Shaped Marquetry Inlay
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Pretty Mahogany Sheraton Revival Pedestal Desk.
This Desk Stands Upon Shaped Legs.
Circa 1880
Each Pedestal Featuring 3 Graduated mahogany Lined Drawers.
The Drawer Fronts Having Tea...
Category
Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XV Style Bombe Secretary Inlaid Marquetry, Signed, Henry Dasson.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Louis XV style bombe secretary inlaid marquetry, Ormolu Mounted. Signed Henry Dasson.
This 19th century bombe tulipwood secretary is built with superior craftsmanship and intricate ...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th C. Spanish Carved Walnut Serpentine Desk with Four Drawers on Trestle Base
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in Spain circa 1860, this sculptural antique walnut writing desk exemplifies the bold elegance of 19th-century Spanish craftsmanship. The serpentine front adds a graceful sil...
Category
Spanish Louis XIII Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Regency Amboyna and Gilt Library Table Attributed to Seddon and Morel
By Morel & Seddon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency amboyna and gilt library table attributed to Seddon and Morel, with a rectangular top set upon solid end supports with a turned, reeded an...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Amboyna
Antique Students Desk Victorian Lecturn Table
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Quirky antique Victorian students desk
Could work also as a lecturn
Top opens out to reveal storage area
Has a great mechanism where you open the d...
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Victorian Walnut Bonheur du Jour, 19th Century
Located in Southall, GB
Victorian Walnut Bonheur du Jour
An unusual mid 19th century Victorian figured walnut bonheur du jour.
The bonheur du jour has four drawers to the front, the three lower drawers have a Wellington chest style locking bar to the right hand side.
The top drawer is fitted with a hinged writing board and ink, pen and pencil storage compartments.
The drawers have raised panel fronts with turned knob handles and are lined with solid walnut.
The top has double shelves above with fluted pillar and scroll...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$3,540 Sale Price
20% Off
English Marquetry Inlaid Bureau De Dame
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Victorian gilt-bronze mounted marquetry inlaid Bureau De Dame.
This richly decorated bureau de dame is of bombe shape beautifully inlaid overa...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Italian Louis Philippe Walnut Wood Writing Desk
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Elegant antique Italian writing desk. Rare and precious solid walnut wood. Comfortable size for a practical use. The desk has elegant turn...
Category
Italian Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$5,730 Sale Price
20% Off
Sheraton Revival Rosewood and Marquetry Inlaid Desk, 19th Century
Located in Glasgow, GB
A superb quality late Victorian Sheraton style rosewood and marquetry desk in the manner of Edwards & Roberts. With a Carlton House influenced top featuring elegant inlaid curved lid...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Dutch 19th Century Mahogany Ladies Desk
Located in Delft, NL
A Dutch 19th century mahogany ladies desk
A mahogany ladies desk with green leather in the wood of the desktop with gold print. The desk has 3...
Category
Dutch Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Fine Quality French Antique Victorian Kingwood and Ormolu Mounted Bureau/Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality French antique Victorian kingwood and ormolu mounted bureau/desk having the original ornate ormolu gallery above two drawers and boasting ormolu beading above the kingwo...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Other, Ormolu
19th Century Satinwood Knee Hole Desk
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century satinwood inlaid pedestal desk. Having its original Moroccan embossed leather top, inlaid decoration to the top, the drawer fronts and sides having classical swag, foliate and shell marquetry inlay...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Antique French Pedestal Desk Walnut 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
French burr walnut pedestal desk
This unusual desk has an arrangement of 9 drawers with brass swan neck handles
Featuring a wide molding to the bottom of the desk and turned bun feet...
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Majestic Italian Desk, circa 1820
Located in Budapest, HU
Piece of extreme beauty. It belonged to a famous scholar of Dante Alighieri. On one side desk, above the lectern, behind wardrobe with two pullers.
Very fine inlays in almost all s...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Figured Walnut Pedestal Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Mid 19th Century Walnut Pedestal Desk, Of Practical Proportions, Having Attractive Gilt Tooled Leather Top, Over Nine Extremely Well Figured Drawers With Mostly O...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$6,147 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Victorian Burr Walnut Writing Desk with 5 Drawers and Baluster Legs
Located in King's Lynn, GB
Here we have an Antique Victorian (1837-1901) Burr Walnut Desk with a quarter veneered burr walnut top, carved front legs, 5 drawers, all with wooden knob handles and casters (wheels...
Category
British Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Exceptional Quality Antique 19th Century Victorian Burr Walnut Bureau
Located in Suffolk, GB
Exceptional quality antique 19th century Victorian burr walnut bureau having three drawers above a beautiful shaped fall enclosing a wonderful fitted exterior with three long drawers...
Category
English High Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Rare English "Adam" Influenced Hepplewhite Style Carved Mahogany Cylinder Desk
By Robert Adam
Located in CHARLESTON, SC
Exceptional quality antique English "Adam" influenced Hepplewhite style carved and pierced mahogany cylinder desk with pull out baize covered slide and fitted interior.
Please note ...
Category
English Hepplewhite Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Baize, Mahogany
$4,847 Sale Price
30% Off
19th Century Vernis Martin French Secretaire Cabinet Attributed To Paul Sormani
By Paul Sormani
Located in Dublin, IE
A superb late 19th century French flamed mahogany and Vernis Martin secretaire cabinet in the manner of Paul Sormani Paris. The rectangular top with three quarter balustrade gallery,...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Quality Mahogany Freestanding Slide Top Davenport by Charles Hindley
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian quality mahogany freestanding slide top Davenport by Charles Hindley and Sons, Oxford Street, London having a quality slidin...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Other
19th Century Louis XV Style Burlwood Ormolu Mounted Lady’s Desk
Located in Vero Beach, FL
French 19th century Louis XV style Burlwood Ormolu Mounted Lady’s Desk.
Elegant French burlwood and ormolu mounted Lady’s cylinder desk. The single door cabinet is raised by slend...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Gothic Revival English Desk of Bleached Oak with Linenfold Motifs, circa 1830
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English bleached oak Gothic Revival desk with linenfold motifs from the first half of the 19th century. This English desk features a rectangular top over three drawers and two sid...
Category
English Gothic Revival Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Oak
French Empire Mahogany Drop Front Secretary "Secrétaire à Abattant"
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 19th century French mahogany wood Empire style drop front secretary with a removable black marble top. The secretary features two front side columns with bronze mounts detail w...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Biedermeier Tabernacle/ Secretaire
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Biedermeier Tabernacle - walnut veneer and marquetry decorated in typical "Vienna Set-top Style". Fall front writing surface and 3 drawers in lower section. Eight drawers and a cen...
Category
Austrian Antique 19th Century Desks
$14,940 Sale Price
52% Off
Italian Early 19th Century Ebonized Fruitwood, Exotic Wood, and Ormolu Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An exceptional Italian early 19th century ebonized fruitwood, exotic wood, and ormolu desk. The three drawer desk is raised by elegant square tapered legs with bun feet and finely in...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Early 19th Century English Rosewood Library Table With Tooled Leather Top
Located in Charlottesville, VA
An early 19th century English library table in rosewood, featuring an inset red tooled leather top above a rectangular apron. The twin pedestal base is supported by turned columns re...
Category
British Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Rosewood
Writing Desk with Red Leather Writing Board, a Drawer, and Shelving
Located in New York, NY
A writing desk with a drawer and shelving. On the surface is a red leather writing board. The foot legs of the desk have lovely brass ends. Desk is from the early 19th Century mahoga...
Category
Asian Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century George l Style Secretary
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is a charming George l style walnut diminutive secretary. The domed cornice over a conforming cabinet door has a mirror plate. The bottom section contains a drop-front opening t...
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mirror, Walnut
Napoleon III French Travel Fall Front Desk in Rosewood and Boxwood Veneer 1860s
Located in Huntington, NY
Napoleon III French travel fall front desk in rosewood and boxwood veneer 1860s.
With inset leather fall front. Small compartment in top. Cut outs to interior for ink wells
& paper organizing...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
$3,840 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Quality Antique Victorian French Kingwood Bonheur Du Jour
Located in Suffolk, GB
Fine quality antique Victorian French kingwood bonheur du jour having a quality shaped gallery top with ornate ormolu mounts, two brass column...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Kingwood
Early 19th Century Fall-Front Desk
Located in Buchanan, MI
Handsome and functional Regency mahogany fall front desk, server, entry way piece, great inlay, elegant form. Exceptional exaggerated arched foot.
Category
North American Federal Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Satin
Antique English Victorian Burl Walnut Small Lap Desk Box with Fitted Interior
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique English Victorian Burl Walnut Small Lap Desk with Fitted Interior. Item features working lock and key, small inlaid brass plaque, very nice antique. Circa 19th Century. Measu...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Mahogany Hepplewhite Drop Front Desk with Graduated Drawers
Located in Big Flats, NY
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Antique Mahogany Hepplewhite Drop Front Desk with Gr...
Category
English Hepplewhite Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Opaline Glass, Mahogany
$1,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Antique French Louis XV Bureau Plat Desk After Charles Cressent
Located in New York, NY
Monumental antique bureau plat (desk) in the French Louis XV style after the original design by Charles Cressent (1685-1768), 80 by 38 by 32.5 inches, finely crafted with kingwood an...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Carved Chippendale Style Desk or Side Chair, 19 Century
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique 19th Century Carved Chippendale Style Desk or Side Chair
Additional information:
Materials: Wood
Color: Ebony
Period: 19th Century
Styles: Chippendale
Number of Seats: 1
It...
Category
British Chippendale Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
19th Century Transforming Table, Ladies Desk, Secretaire, Walnut, France ca 1860
Located in Greven, DE
Small antique secretary, lady's desk
France
Walnut
around 1860
Dimensions: H x W x D: 90 x 59 x 53 cm
Description:
Quite extraordinary small piece of transforming furniture...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Mahogany Partners Desk, 19th century
Located in Dallas, TX
Stately English mahogany partners desk, having tooled leather and gadrooned edge top, each side offering five drawers, raised on cabriole legs with heavily carved knees and resting o...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Federal Partners' Desk in Mahogany, Philadelphia, circa 1820
Located in Miami, FL
A beautiful Philadelphia partners desk in mahogany with gadrooned top and apron resting on center pedestal with carved baluster and legs, and ending in brass casters with lions' paw ...
Category
American Federal Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century Antique Davenport, Victorian Swivel Top Desk, circa 1850
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a Victorian antique Davenport dating to the mid-19th century, circa 1850.
Riding on the original brass castors beneath the plinth base, this Davenport benefits from the un...
Category
British Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Rosewood
Antique Bureau, French, Marble Top, Kingwood, Marquetry Desk, circa 1900
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique bureau. A French, marble top, kingwood, marquetry desk dating to the turn of the 20th century, circa 1900.
An interesting and unusual antique bureau
The kingwo...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Kingwood
19th Century English Mahogany Pedestal Desk
Located in Southampton, NY
19th century English mahogany pedestal desk.
(Light honey color to mahogany).
Category
British Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Antique George III Quality Mahogany Secretaire Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality mahogany secretaire desk/cabinet having a quality mahogany rectangular shaped top above a secretaire drawer with ebony inlay stringing and original brass h...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Other
Dutch Colonial Teak Desk with Brass Hardware
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Dutch colonial teak desk with brass hardware.
Solid carved legs united by footrest stretcher. Old brass handles and peg work joinery throughout. Locks have b...
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Teak
$2,765 Sale Price
30% Off
Late 19th Century Edwardian, Crotch Mahogany Woman's Petite Drop Front Desk
Located in Louisville, KY
This late 19th, early 20th Century Edwardian Style, Crotch Mahogany woman's drop front desk is so beautifully unique and perfectly petite to fit in so many compact room-scapes! The f...
Category
English Edwardian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Swedish Style Shopkeeper's Slant Front Writing Desk
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th Century Swedish Style Painted Shopkeeper's Slanted Front Writing Desk commonly used by merchants in the 1800s. Desk features a hinged front panel that opens to reveal compartmen...
Category
American Gustavian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
19th Century Walnut Italian Writing Desk with Marquetry Inlay
Located in Dallas, TX
The 19th Century Walnut Italian Writing Desk with Marquetry Inlay is a stunning piece of furniture that exudes elegance and sophistication. Made from high-quality walnut wood, this d...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Italian Carved Walnut Antique Writing Desk
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Elegant and essential antique Italian writing desk. The desk is made of solid walnut wood. Important turned and carved legs. Plenty of sp...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
$3,342 Sale Price
20% Off
Outstanding Quality Antique Victorian Burr Walnut Bonheur De Jour Writing Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality antique Victorian burr walnut Bonheur de Jour writing desk having a beautifully designed and shaped top glazed cabinet to the centre which opens to reveal a fitte...
Category
French Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Sheraton Mahogany Plantation Secretary c. Mid 19th Century
Located in Westfield, MA
A rare and beautifully proportioned mid-19th century Sheraton plantation sec retary, this piece blends Southern charm with practical design. Crafted from richly figured mahogany, the...
Category
American Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Lamb of Manchester, An Aesthetic Movement Walnut Writing Desk.
Located in London, GB
Lamb of Manchester. An Aesthetic Movement walnut and leather writing desk with a bank of four graduating drawers to the left and a large upper drawer to the right with turned and flu...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Biedermeier Desk, Vienna 1820-30
Located in Leimen, DE
Biedermeier desk, Vienna 1820-1825, walnut with maple marquetry. The top and the end panels with beautiful flower and vine decor. The table is in good original condition. If required...
Category
Austrian Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Trompe I'oeil Painted Lap Desk on Stand
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Charming Trompe L'0eil painted lap desk on stand. Top features a letter & quill pen. The legs of stand have hand painted ivy. Top hinges open to storage compartment.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
Walnut Slant Front Bureau/Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
This walnut slant front bureau/desk of generous proportions is most likely American. It has an attractive interior with block front and serpentine d...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut, Pine
American Southern Mahogany and Leather Plantation Desk with Reeded Legs, C. 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
American Southern Mahogany plantation desk with a molded edge hinged top, upper case with a fall front revealing a leather writing surface with a f...
Category
American American Colonial Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Leather, Poplar, Pine
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