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Period: 19th Century
Mahogany writing table with detailed floral marquetry & carved decoration
Located in London, GB
A fine quality freestanding mahogany desk, with detailed floral marquetry and carved decoration the frieze and legs, a green tooled leather top with satinwood banding, and brass cast...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
French Bureau Plat of Ebony and Brass Inlay with Ormolu Mounts, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A Fine Bureau Plat in the Manner of André-Charles Boulle
Constructed in ebony with arabesque foliate cut brass inlays, with premiere-partie panels set with tortoiseshell grounds and brass inlay work, and having extensive fine quality ormolu mounts; rising from animal paw sabots, mounted with female masks at the shoulders; the apron housing three drawers, with faux drawers to the obverse, the central drawers set with a Bacchic mask issuing foliates, the platform of serpentine form, having a brass guard edge, and inset with a gilt tooled morocco leather. Stamped to the carcass ‘BF’ and ‘Gros’.
French, Circa 1870
Denise Ledoux-Lebard’s ‘Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siecle’. Published by les Editions de l’Amateur, 2000, lists a Benjamin Gros, whose enterprise amalgamated with the noted ebeniste Winckelsen in 1871; Gros had received an honourable mention for his ‘Boulle’ furniture in the Exposition Universelle in 1855.
Literature;
Le Mobilier Francais (qv)
Seymour de Ricci, Batsford 1929 ‘Louis XIV and Regence Furniture...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
19th C. Royal Antique Burl Wood Secretary Desk & Black Leather Drop Leaf Top Hrh
Located in West Hollywood, CA
19th C. royal antique burl wood secretary desk & black leather drop leaf top HRH . Very rare early 19th century secretary " Secrétaire a' Aba...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Very Rare Gillow Breakfront Library Desk Brass Gallery Burr Amboyna Wood
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare Gillow Library breakfront desk with brass gallery in Burr Amboyna timber, circa...
Category
English High Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Burl
Superb 19th Century French Empire Escritoire
Located in Dallas, TX
Marvelous 19th century French Empire three-drawer escritoire with lovely Breche africaine marble top. Having detailed bronze mounts in urn and floral motifs, columnar supports with p...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
19th century English Adam Style Hand Painted Satinwood Desk
Located in Savannah, GA
Satinwood desk with reticulated sides that are extraordinarily hand-painted with festooned drapery, ribbons and bows. Decorated on all sides this lovely piece can float in a room and...
Category
British Adam Style Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
American Empire Writing Table with Carved Acanthus Legs, circa 1840
Located in Southampton, NY
American empire writing table with carved acanthus legs, circa 1840
Casters, Missing ormolu on right side of centre drawer. Beautiful ornately carved acanthus legs with casters with...
Category
American American Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique North German/Danish Empire Cylinder-Top Secretary with Bookcase, c. 1815
Located in Miami, FL
From the Hamburg/Schleswig-Holstein region of Germany, once part of Denmark, a very handsome Empire secretary with bookcase in ash with inlays and marquetry silhouettes of neoclassical Roman images. Cylinder top opens to a pull-out desk which offers a felt-lined lectern or writing surface flanked by sliding storage compartments, as well as a series of small drawers and a central cabinet. Above desk, are three cupboards and below, there are three long drawers. Northern Germany or from the Danish Jutland region, circa 1815.
Note: Green baize on writing surface can be replaced with leather.
Measures: 46" wide x 21" deep x 83" high (With desk top open...
Category
German Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ash
Dutch Marquetry Burl Walnut Bombay Figural and Foliage Inlaid Desk, Circa 1850
Located in Hollywood, SC
Dutch Marquetry burl walnut Bombay figural and foliage desk with exotic exterior inlays, fitted interior, three lower case drawers, original urn brasses, carved scalloped skirt, and ...
Category
Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Chest of Drawers Biedermeier from 1840
Located in Kraków, Małopolska
We present very good condition, elegant and functional Chest of Drawers Vienna (Austria), made of walnut tree from 1840.
(Biedermeier was a style in the art, literature , music a...
Category
Austrian Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century, Biedermeier Cherry Ladies Desk / Side Table
Located in Darmstadt, DE
Beautiful little Biedermeier solid cherrywood desk or side table from the time of the Biedermeier, circa 1830. In the middle there is a drawer. In very...
Category
German Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Cherry
19th Century English Walnut Bookcase or Secretary
Located in Savannah, GA
This is a bookcase / secretary or Bureau bookcase, made in England, circa 1825. There is a Pagoda Shaped layered crown molding to the top of the piece (very unusual). There is a pair...
Category
English George IV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Birch and Morocco Leather Pedestal Desk in the French Empire Manner
Located in London, GB
A pedestal desk in the French Empire manner
of freestanding breakfront form with everted angles, constructed in birchwood, and burr birchwood, having bronze accents drawn from the...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze
English Mahogany Oval Sea Captains Leather Top Desk, Circa 1800
Located in Hollywood, SC
English mahogany oval sea captains desk with hinged leather top concealing two upper hidden compartments, single front drawer, original brasses, ebony...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
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
Gillows of Lancaster attri., Gothic Revival Oak Architect's Desk
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. A rare Gothic Revival architect's folding desk. The top has opposing slides opening to reveal a compartment for storing drawing utensils etc. The ...
Category
English Gothic Revival Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
Swedish Scriban
Located in Washington, DC
A white painted 19th century, Swedish scriban with several drawers and pockets with drop down front.
Category
European Gustavian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
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
Charles 'X' Secretaire
Located in Sheffield, MA
Burled elm charles 'X' drop front secretary (secrétaire à abattant) with black marble top with white vains, drop door revealing a leather covered writing table...
Category
English Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Marble
19th Century English Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century English ladies writing desk with finely painted satinwood. The desk has two drawers and two doors. The handles are sterling ...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Sterling Silver
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
Louis XV Style Desk
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis XV knee hole desk with leather writing surface.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Antique American Inlaid Serpentine Desk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Late 18th-early 19th century mahogany drop-front writing desk with satinwood banding and marquetry fan design. Outfitted with interior drawers. Brass hardware in caduceus pattern. Sc...
Category
American Chippendale Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
French Empire Dressing Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This stylish and chic French Empire piece dates from the napoleioic period of the early 19th century and is fabricated in mahogany with inset leather top, elongated, hand-carved swan...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Giltwood
English Mahogany and Ormolu Partners Desk with Red Leather, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
A Very Fine Partners Library Desk by Holland & Sons
Constructed in mahogany and having splendid gilt bronze accents. Of freestanding pedestal form, rising from plinth bases, dress...
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Swiss Early 19th Century Empire Bureau Cabinet, Signed Hirschgartner
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
This fine Empire drop-front secretary (secrétaire a'abattant or secrétaire en armoire) with a writing and standing desk is signed M. Hirschgartner. Hans Martin Hirschgartner (1766-18...
Category
Swiss Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Marble
French Louis XV Style Gold Gilt Writing Desk with Marquetry Inlaid Top
Located in Philadelphia, PA
19th century French Louis XV style gold gilt small writing desk with marquetry inlaid top. Item features distressed gold gilt finish, shaped top, carvings on all sides, stunning marq...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Victorian Walnut Ladies Desk, 1860
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality Victorian walnut Bonheur du jour, having a mirror to the centre, glazed cupboards either side, an inlaid fall front bureau, opening to reveal compartments, drawers and...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
French 19th Century Empire Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Troy, NY
Elegant French Empire bureau-plat or partners desk, The top, inlaid with a center-star-motive and small decorations on each corner, above five drawers, the middle one opening from th...
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Napoleon III Ebonized Desk with Marble Inlay, France, 19th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Ebonized desk with compartments on either side. Central drawer decorated with a cherub. Marble inlay. Leather top.
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Marble
Period Regency Mahogany Mechanical Gentleman's Desk
Located in Hudson, NY
This very fine desk made during the Regency period in England is of great design and exceptional quality. Constructed of Mahogany solids and veneers with fine figure and color. The d...
Category
British Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Hampton & Sons Chinese Chippendale Cylinder Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting an absolutely gorgeous mid-late 19th century British Chinese Chippendale style cylinder desk from the renowned maker of Hampton & Sons, of Pall Mall, London.
This stunnin...
Category
English Chinese Chippendale Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
English Regency Mahogany Sideboard
Located in New York, NY
English Regency mahogany sideboard with 3 drawers centered between bowed form drawers and supported by 6 square fluted legs with lio...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Late 19th Century French Steel Large Industrial Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This very good table has all the elements associated with the finest of industrial furniture. Conceived at a time, circa 1890-1900 when art and industry were combined to create modern wonders of the age and who’s ideals had the intent of recreating for man a new way of life. The heavy metal supports are both industrial and neoclassical in design taking elements from Roman forms and marrying them to the new iron structures and manufacturing processes then being used in such things at the Effiel Tower...
Category
French Industrial Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Steel, Iron
19th Century French Writing Desk Secretary
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very fine late 19th century French writing desk secretary with dore bronze mountings and Marble. It is made of a variety of woods - f...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Fine 19th Century Adam Style Lady's Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Exquisite detail and exceptionally fine hand paintings adorn this sweet and compact desk.
Fine quality satinwood. A rare example.
Category
English Adam Style Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Shop Counter Sarreguemines Porcelain
Located in Vosselaar, BE
This late 19th century French shop counter is extremely rare because of its custom made Sarreguemines porcelain panels. Every panel is a bit different and fits seamlessly with bolts ...
Category
French Baroque Revival Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Rare and Stunning Empire Mahogany Curved Desk and Bookshelf, 19th Century French
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very unusual pairing features a curved desk and a curved bookshelf with a variety of decorative elements on each. It is quite rare to find curved...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Gold
19th Century English Campaign Chest with Desk
Located in East Hampton, NY
Fabulous 19th century English two-part campaign chest..... the top two drawers hold a pull-out desk...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
French Pedestal Desk, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
With six drawers and simulated door in the rigth side.
Two pull out side shelves.
Beautiful construction and finish.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Sycamore, Wood
Directoire Mahogany Trestle Table, Early 19th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
Directoire mahogany trestle table, early 19th century. An octagonal top with lower shelf table.
Category
French Directoire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Rare 19th Century English Writing Desk
Located in London, GB
A magnificent Bonheur du Jour of exhibition quality, in the Louis XV manner attributed to Holland & Sons
Lovingly constructed in Bois Citronnier, and Purpleheart woods, with exten...
Category
English Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Edwardian Satinwood Carlton House Desk
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality Edwardian period Sheraton style Satinwood, Carlton house desk. Having a brass pierced gallery to the top. Marquetry inlaid decoration depicting musical instrument...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Antique French Cherry Cylinder Top Desk
Located in Port Chester, NY
A very dramatic piece of furniture. Design utilizes the best of the earlier Directoire period, and the contemporary Beidermier style. The interior wood color, less exposed to light, ...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
19th Century Paul Sormani French Miniature Cylinder Writing Desk
By Paul Sormani
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century French walnut miniature cylinder writing desk with brass mountings and velvet writing surface. It is signed on the Paul Sorman.
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Large Empire French Writing Desk with Embossed Brown Leather Top & Column Legs
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large Empire French writing desk or bureau plat with embossed brown leather top, bronze dore mounts, column legs, and three drawers.
Category
French Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Pine Kneehole Desk
Located in Woodbury, CT
This little desk would make an excellent vanity. While it probably didn't have a leather top in its earliest iteration, it has been raised in both appearance and stature, as casters ...
Category
British George III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Pine
Sloping Desk, Louis XV Style, Precious Wood Veneer, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Office of slope, Louis XV style, veneer of precious wood, 19th century, Napoleon III.
Measures: H 93cm, L 65cm, P 43cm.
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
19th Century English Chinoiserie Knee Hole Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
19th century English Chinoiserie Knee Hole Desk with Raised Chinoiserie Decoration. The Key is included.
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
French 19th Century Secretary
Located in New Orleans, LA
This secretary desk opens up and offers a beautiful writing space, along with areas to store your writing material. The secretary has bronze mounts, a marble top and Venis Martin...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Wonderful 19th Century Parquetry Commde/Desk
Located in New Orleans, LA
19th century Italian fall front desk/commode.
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Desks
Antique French Parquetry and Bronze Cartonnier Writing Desk with Clock
Located in London, GB
Cartonnier in the Louis XVI Manner after the Original by Simon Oeben
Constructed in kingwood and having extensive parquetry inlay, with well cast and extensive fire gilt bronze enhancements. The writing section of oblong form with re-entrant corners, housing three frieze drawers and with a tooled brown leather top; the shouldered tapering legs dressed with imbricated bronze mounts: lions masks at the ends: the frame having a guard bronze rail...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Rare and Very Special Late 19th Century Bureau by François Linke
Located in New York, NY
A rare and very special late 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze-mounted two-tier kidney shaped bureau
by Franc¸ois Linke.
The upper case with shaped top, surmounted by a s...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
French Empire Architect's Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
French Empire architect's desk.
Flame grain mahogany veneers, leather covered drawers.
Category
Unknown Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
Petite French Louis XV Style Walnut Slant-Front Desk, Stamped, circa 1810
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stamped French Louis XV style small walnut slant-front desk with sliding inlaid panels, long drawer and inner compartments from the early 19th century. This petite French desk...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
American Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Hollywood, SC
American mahogany partners desk with carved acanthus, baise top, and ending on lions paw feet. Desk has original wooden knobs and casters.
Category
American Antique 19th Century Desks
19th Century Mahogany Knee Hole Desk
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is an unusual English Regency mahogany knee hole desk, the top with leather inset, above a frieze drawer flanked by a pair of pilasters with brass capitals and collars, situated...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Aesthetic Movement Mahogany Secretaire Bookcase with Gilt Brass Mounts
Located in London, GB
An aesthetic movement mahogany secretaire bookcase with gilt brass mounts and lower tambour front.
Category
Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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