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Period: 19th Century
Outstanding Louis XV-Style Mahogany Bureau Plat
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An outstanding Louis XV-style mahogany bureau plat after a model by Jacques B. Dubois, from the estate of Phyllis McGuire, the shaped leather-inset top...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
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
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
Birch Biedermeier Secretaire
Located in New York, NY
Constructed of solid birch and fir and veneered with hand-cut Nordic birch veneers, the secretary features an upper locking drawer which rests upon a fitted desk area hiding behind a...
Category
Swedish Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Birch, Fir
Handcrafted Colonial Teak Campaign Table with Folding Legs
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Circa 1890's
Solid teak hand crafted Campaign folding table from the days of the British Raj. Has flaps that pivot outwards and tuck away ben...
Category
British Indian Ocean Territory Campaign Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Teak
Georgian Oak Secretary
Located in Sheffield, MA
Very handsome Georgian lowland oak secretary with walnut trim.
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak, Walnut
Antique German Gründerzeit Pedestal Desk in Pine, circa 1880
Located in Miami, FL
A handsome & spacious Gründerzeit pedestal desk in pine. Germany, circa 1880. Base offers a pull-out writing surface with brown-leather top with gold tooling around edge, a long drawer above kneehole and storage cabinets at either side. Top cabinet section of desk has four small drawers flanking a keyed storage...
Category
German Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
Very Rare and Fine Early 19th Century Georgian Inlaid Bureau Bookcase
Located in Dublin, IE
A very rare and fine early 19th century Georgian mahogany bureau bookcase, line inlaid throughout and with intricate marquetry depicting Neoclassical motifs of swags, garlands, flowe...
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Early 19th Century Mahogany Pedestal Desk
Located in Martlesham, GB
Early 19th century mahogany pedestal desk, the moulded edge top having a brown leather writing surface decorated with gold and blin...
Category
British Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Fine English 19th Century Mahogany Secretary-Desk
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine English table with a "hidden" writing desk/ secretary opening via three articulated compartments.
Category
British Edwardian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique French Renaissance Revival Hunt Desk / Secretaire Barley Twist Oak 19th
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Gorgeous French antique 19th century Renaissance revival / Hunt style Writing desk in carved oak.
Marvelous decorated hunt style desk with fox head drawers & barley twisted columns...
Category
French Renaissance Revival Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
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
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
19th Century Victorian Carved Mahogany Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
Selling is a top quality, unusual mid-Victorian copy of a Chippendale carved desk. The top drawer of the desk, when opened, reveals a rising writing panel and two lift up panels with...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Functionalist Tubular Steel Desk by Gottwald and Chair by Slezak 1930s
Located in Wien, AT
Functionalist tubular steel desk by Hynek Gottwald and chair by Slezak 1930s.
This one of a kind directors desk with a very nice walnut veneer has been completely restored.
The ma...
Category
Czech Art Deco Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Steel, Chrome
19th Century English George III Chinoiserie Bureau
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Early 19th century hand painted and decorated chinoiserie bureau / desk. The fall front opening to reveal a fully fitted interior and numerous holding compartments, above an arrangem...
Category
English Chinoiserie Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Style Cylinder Bureau, By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Rare Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany Cylinder Bureau. By François Linke, Paris. Index Number 100. France, Circa 1890.
The top with three quarter pierced gallery. The cylinder front centred by a gilt-bronze foliate framed oval decorated with floral marquetry and a harp and books representing lyric poetry. Flanked by twin-light gilt-bronze candelabra. The roll-top enclosing an arrangement of four small drawers and five small compartments above a gilt-tooled green leather writing surface. The frieze fronted by a central drawer with spring-loaded secret release and faced with a relief-cast plaque of cloudborne putti representing the arts. The flanking drawers with gilt-bronze acanthus cast handles and fruiting cornucopia...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Antique Writing Table, English, Regency, Mahogany, Davenport, circa 1820
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique writing table, an English, Regency, mahogany, open Davenport dating to the early 19th century, circa 1820.
Of quality craf...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
Viennese Baroque Secretary Slant Door Bureau ar 1860 Straight & Heavy Solid Oak
Located in Landshut, BY
This rather straight, very heavy solid oak Viennese baroque folding desk has been carefully restored to its original condition - no replacements! Even the 2 main keys are still there...
Category
Austrian Baroque Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
19th Century Louis Philippe Fall-Front Secretary in Cherrywood
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautiful craftsmanship Louis Philippe abattant secretary desk in a walnut cherry wood with exterior front inlay with farmscapes, castle and flowers marquetry details. The secretary ...
Category
European Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Victorian Burl Walnut Kidney Shape Desk By Gillow
Located in Essex, MA
Kidney shaped top with conforming inset green leather and brass gallery over a central drawer flanked by smaller drawers and three drawers on each side of the knee hole. The reverse ...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Large Oak Wood Desk with Antler Decorations by Rudolf Brix 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
A large antique oak wood desk decorated with several antler pieces from the deer and the Virginia deer as well as wild boar tusks. The doors and sides carry animal heads (staghound and fox) made of pottery. A rare rustic furniture manufactured in Austria ca. 1900 by Rudolf Brix...
Category
Austrian Black Forest Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Antler, Wood
Fine Antique British Mahogany Campaign Style Server Chest
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Fine antique English mahogany Campaign style server chest, with a step back two tiered hinged top with walnut turned spindle supports for the two shaped a...
Category
Irish Campaign Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
19th Century French Oak Barley Twist Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular 19th century French bureau plat writing table or desk featuring barley twist legs and stretcher. Crafted from oak in the grand Louis XIII style fronted by a large 27 inch...
Category
French Louis XIII Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
Louis XVI Style Leather Top Ormolu Bureau Plat Desk
Located in Chicago, US
Bureau Plat desk in the style of Louis XVI. Original inset brown leather writing surface with bronze trim and gold embossing detail at center and corners of the top. Three drawers wi...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
E W Godwin attr for Collinson & Lock. An Aesthetic Movement walnut writing table
Located in London, GB
Collinson and Lock. Attributed to E W Godwin. An exceptional quality walnut writing table with five upper drawers each with swan neck handles standing on eight finely turned legs, ea...
Category
English Aesthetic Movement Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Stained Glass Students Bureau, Book Case This is a b
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Stained Glass Students Bureau, Book Case
This is a beautiful and very useful piece, an Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Students Bureau with Stained Glass Book Case and shelves...
Category
Arts and Crafts Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
Antique English Campaign Chest with Pullout Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Handsome 19th Century British Colonial campaign chest handcrafted in mahogany in a two piece construction, bound in brass with brass hardware and turned feet, featuring a pullout des...
Category
English Campaign Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique 19th Century German Jugendstil/ Art Nouveau Writing Desk in Pine
Located in Miami, FL
A lovely and well-crafted Jugendstil desk in pine with upper cabinet resting over a writing table offering open shelving & closed storage. Top has a carved bonnet with stylized flowers and open carvings with turned finials on the corners. Writing table offers one long storage...
Category
German Jugendstil Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
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
Fine 19th Century Gillows Parquetry and Gilt Bronze Kidney Shaped Table
Located in Benington, Herts
An extremely fine gilt bronze mounted parquetry kidney shaped writing table attributed to Gillows of Lancaster.
English Circa 1865
The rosewood lozenge trellis inlaid kidney shape...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Italian Neoclassical Painted and Découpage Ladies Desk, Circa 1890
Located in Dallas, TX
Known as a bonheur du jour, this beautiful Italian ladies desk dates to circa 1890. Bonheur du jour was designed specifically for women, serving as a writing desk and a cabinet to st...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Paint
20th Mid-Century Spanish Buffet Secretaire, Escritoire Cabinet Oak
Located in Labrit, Landes
Vintage buffet escritoire secretary cabinet, made circa 1960 in Spain.
Oak, wrough iron, brass and moleskine.
Desk very convenient to store and close in a room with several functions...
Category
Spanish Mid-Century Modern Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wrought Iron
Biedermeier Walnut Secretary
Located in Hudson, NY
Biedermeier Walnut Secretary Chest, Biedermeier walnut secretary with cabinet below. Desk has four small drawers and a letter shelf. Cab...
Category
Czech Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
19th C Buffet Secretaire, Escritoire Cabinet Louis Philippe Cherrywood, France
Located in Labrit, Landes
Antique Louis Philippe buffet escritoire secretaire cabinet, circa 1850-1860
Desk very convenient to store and close in a room with several func...
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Cherry
Unusual Antique George III Quality Figured Mahogany Double Secretaire Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Unusual Antique George III quality figured mahogany double secretaire desk having a figured mahogany crossbanded top above two secretaire drawers with original brass lions head hand...
Category
English George III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Other
American Victorian Wooden Drafting Table with Iron Base
Located in Queens, NY
American Victorian wood tilt top adjustable drafting architects table desk with a tripod iron base.
Category
American Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Regency Burr Elm Davenport Desk
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
An Exceptional Quality And Extremely Rare Early 18th Century Regency Period Burr Elm Davenport Having Hinged Swivel Top With Inset Leather, Retaining Elegant Original Ormolu Gallery With Pierced Handle, Over Rare Mechanical Slide And Four Ash Lined Drawers With Bobbin Moulded Decoration, Raised On Original Turned Bun Feet.
The term Davenport is owed to Captain Davenport...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Elm
Antique Roll Top Desk Mahogany Bureau, 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Classy French Empire roll top desk in mahogany
Plenty of storage with all the cubby holes and drawers
Writing surface revealed by opening up the...
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Podium, Restaurant Reception Greeter
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Golden Oak Podium, Restaurant Reception Greeter
This piece is beautiful colour of Golden Oak, it is an Arts and Crafts Reading stand, the top of the desk is flat ...
Category
Arts and Crafts Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
Campaign Desk In Mahogany-19 ° Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Elegant mahogany campaign desk or marine desk from the 19th century from England
Indeed this furniture called "campaign furniture" or navy furniture was...
Category
British Campaign Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
Fine 19th Century Mahogany Kidney Shaped Pedestal Desk
Located in London, GB
A fine quality mid-19th century well figured mahogany kidney shaped pedestal desk, having moulded edge gilt tooled leather top, ab...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
French Louis XV Style Desk with Leather Writing Pad, Black with Brass Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XV style desk, with leather writing pad top, from the 19th century. This antique table from France has been designed in the Louis XV...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
19th Century Italian Console Hand-Carved Solid Walnut Two Drawers Natural Color
Located in Buggiano, IT
Late 19th century console in hand-carved solid walnut with two drawers in original natural color.
Umbertine style, with intermediate shelf.
The carvings are all done manually.
In anc...
Category
Italian Rustic Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut, Fir
Georgian Revival Partners Desk Mahogany 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Large Georgian style mahogany partners desk
This impressive desk stands upon a plinth base
Each side of the desk having an arrangement of 6 mahogany lined drawers and 1 cupboard
Circ...
Category
Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Bureau de Dame
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality French Louis XV style Kingwood, ormolu mounted bureau de dame with parquetry inlaid to the whole, various drawers to the top and fri...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Early Paint Antique French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Desk & Stool
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning early painted circa 1880-1900 French Louis XV style Bureau plat writing table with later stool
This is a wonderful find, the burea...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Antique 19th Century Victorian Quality Walnut Freestanding Davenport
Located in Suffolk, GB
19th Century Antique Victorian quality walnut freestanding davenport having a lift up top opening to reveal a fitted interior above a lift up lid with a leather writing surface openi...
Category
English Late Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Liberty & Co A Moorish Walnut Desk with Angular Design & 4 Opposite Side Drawers
Located in London, GB
Liberty & Co.
A Moorish Walnut Desk with Mushrabia turnings to the upper shelf, just below to the turned uprights there are dowel holes which I have shown in the images, they are the...
Category
English Moorish Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Style Leather Top Ladies Writing Desk
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Louis XV style leather top with front drawer ladies writing desk with bronze mounted design details. The desk is in great antique condi...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Secretary with Cylinder Top & Tambour Front Northern Europe circa 1800
Located in Miami, FL
A Louis XVI secretary desk in mahogany with satinwood inlays. Offers a cylinder top that opens to reveal a series of small drawers surrounding...
Category
European Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany, Satinwood
Sheraton Revival Cylinder Bureau, circa 1890
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th century satinwood Sheraton revival cylinder bureau with ebony string inlay, having a three quarter brass gallery to the t...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
Biedermeier Secretaire
Located in New York, NY
A strong, elegant piece to keep you perfectly organized! Crafted of hand-hewn fir and ash and veneered with thick hand-cut ash veneers, this chest offers storage for everything. A lo...
Category
Swedish Biedermeier Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ash
Antique Hepplewhite Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable early 19th century Hepplewhite partners desk having the original tooled leather top in a crossbanded border, a case with three drawers in each side with beechwood...
Category
English Hepplewhite Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Wood
French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Montreal, QC
This fine piece dates from the third quarter of the 19th century and has many of the characteristics of a period piece, although made later. The mahogany is exceptionally well-chosen...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
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