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Period: 19th Century
Antique Pine Leather Top Partners Desk, Library Table
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Antique Pine Leather Top Partners Desk, Library Table
This is a very sturdy double sided writing desk, very rare and very attractive, the de...
Category
High Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
French Gothic Pine Reading Stand, Greeting Station, Greeter
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
French Gothic Pine Reading Stand, Greeting Station, Greeter
An Original French Reading stand, this Gothic piece would make a great Front of House Oak Greeter
The Stand has 8 arched ...
Category
Gothic Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
Rare 19th Century Coromandel and Gilt Brass Pedestal Desk by Wright & Mansfield
Located in London, GB
A Very Fine Writing Desk
Constructed in coromandel, with extensive gilt brass work fittings; rising from castor shod toupie feet, the two pedestals housing three lockable graduated drawers, with gilt brass cock beadings, and foliate cast swan neck handles; three long drawers in the apron, the fielded panelled sides having fitted extensible slides; the writing surface with an inset tooled leather, and having an outer moulded gilt brass guard edging; the superstructure of gilt brass trellis work, housed within turned and fluted columns, incorporating an upper shelf with an arcaded gilt brass gallery.
A virtually identical desk...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
French First Empire Period, circa 1805, ‘Secretaire Abattant’
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most powerful and of the highest quality French First Empire period, Circa. 1805, "Secretaire Abattant'. The secretary is solid Cuban mahogany and fire gilded ormolu mounts with tw...
Category
French Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century Italian Wooden Small Antique Desk
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
We present this elegant small Italian mahogany desk dating to the mid-19th century.
It features simple lines free of excessive ornamentation. The legs are crafted with refined turni...
Category
Italian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
French 19th Century Louis XIV Style Mahogany & Brass Inlay Secretary Boulle Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine and rare French 19th century Louis XIV style mahogany and brass inlaid drop-front freestanding secretary desk in the manner of André-Charles Boulle. The slender mahogany body ...
Category
French Louis XIV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Antique Irish Satinwood Writing Desk Lectern Side Table Robert Strahan Dublin
Located in Dublin, Ireland
A Very Imposing example of an Irish well figured Satinwood rectangular Writing or Occasional Table complete with gilt tooled leather writing surface with lift up mechanism which coul...
Category
Irish Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Satinwood
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
Antique English Campaign Chest with Pullout Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Handsome 19th century English chest handcrafted in tropical hardwood featuring a pullout desk over three drawers with a leather writing surface, nooks, crannies and drawers, brass ca...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Super Small Victorian Writing Desk
Located in Swadlincote, GB
A very good Victorian writing desk or hall table with original leather, two drawers, turned legs and standing on brass cup castors, super condtion.
29" high
29" wide
18" depth
You ...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Early 19th Century Regency Mahogany Partners Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Period early 19th century Regency Mahogany Partners desk. Drawers on both sides. Great proportion. Excellent quality...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century Louis XVI Style Giltwood Marble Top Library Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Grand French 19th century library table, writing table, or bureau plat featuring an Italian Carrara marble top inset. Crafted in the neoclassical Louis XVI taste, the frieze is decorated on each side with strands of delicate bell flowers centered by floral reserves. The corners have carved rosettes and are supported by fluted legs having acanthus tops. The legs are conjoined by gracefully curved stretchers centered with an acanthus finial...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Carrara Marble
Victorian Davenport Desk Burr Walnut 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Victorian burr walnut Davenport.
This davenport features 4 mahogany lined drawers to the right hand side and faux drawers to the left hand side.
Circa 1860
The Davenport is raised up...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Acrylic, Walnut
Victorian Davenport Desk Burr Walnut 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous Victorian Davenport circa 1860
Burr Walnut with 4 Drawers to the side and a lift up pen holder on top Finished with claret tooled leather acting as a writi...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique English Regency Mahogany Butlers Secretary c. 1820
Located in Westfield, MA
This exquisite English Regency mahogany butler’s secretary, dating to circa 1820, captures the grandeur and functionality of early 19th-century desig...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Antique Victorian Quality Figured Mahogany Writing Table/Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique Victorian quality figured mahogany writing table/desk having a quality figured mahogany rectangle shape top above 2 frieze drawers with original turned mahogany knob handles ...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Other
EXQUISITE ANTIQUE ITALIAN CIRCA 1860 OLIVE WOOD DESK WRITING TABLE SUBLiME WOOD
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal house antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite original circa 1860-1880 Olive wood Italian desk ...
Category
Italian High Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Napoleon III, Desk, Center Table, Bronze, Inlaid Tortoise, France, 19th Century
Located in Manhasset, NY
Napoleon III Desk or Center Table, Ormolu Bronze, Inlaid Burlwood, Marquetry, France, 19th C., Aristide-Henry Gros. (after)
An exemplary French Centre Table or Writing Desk, dating ...
Category
French Napoleon III Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Empire Style English Roll Top Desk with Bronze Mounts
Located in Queens, NY
19th century Empire style English dark-brown wooden desk with roll top that opens to reveal drawers and letter holders and a gold embossed leather desk surface, topped with a bronze-filigree framed tray, and supported by two columns of drawers, each with a gold drawer pull...
Category
Empire Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Clerk's Desk
Located in London, England
Slope top writing desk in original paint finish.
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Pine
$1,283
Rare Antique circa 1860 Library Writing Table Desk with Twin Writing Slopes
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare original circa 1860 Mahogany library table with built in twin writing slopes
This is a very r...
Category
English High Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Hardwood
$3,060 Sale Price
25% Off
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
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
18th Century Swedish Rococo Slant Front Desk
Located in Huntington, NY
A Swedish Rococo slant front desk. Front opens to reveal a large work surface, ten pull out drawers, seven cubbies and two pull out document holders. A sliding cover at the base open...
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass, Iron
19th Century English Knee Hole Desk
Located in High Point, NC
19th century English knee hole desk made from oak with a beveled edge around the top following down to a single drawer over two banks of three d...
Category
English Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century Regency Mahogany Chiffonier Secretaire
Located in WEST PALM BEACH, FL
This is a beautifully articulated and unusual English Regency mahogany chiffonier secretaire. The top section containing two shelves with round b...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Rosewood
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
Victorian Davenport Desk Burr Walnut 1840
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Fine quality Victorian burr walnut davenport carvings on the lower uprights
Finished with a red tooled leather
Circa 1840
The name "Davenport desk" comes from Captain Davenport, for ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Antique Victorian Quality Inlaid Rosewood Freestanding Davenport Desk
Located in Ipswich, GB
Antique Victorian quality inlaid rosewood freestanding Davenport desk, Having the original brass gallery above a lift up stationary box above a writing slope with the original leathe...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Classic Antique French Cherry Desk with Breadboard Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A Classic Antique Provincial French writing table with breadboard top. Plank top two drawer desk featuring scalloped knee hole and apron with two drawers with brass pulls on simple c...
Category
French Provincial Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Cherry
Sheraton Revival Mahogany Inlaid Ladies Desk, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th century mahogany inlaid, Sheraton revival ladies writing desk. having drawers and compartments to the superstructure, an inset leather writing surface, three...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
American Sheraton Mahogany Campaign Desk. Circa 1810
Located in Charleston, SC
American Sheraton mahogany campaign desk with hinged flip top, pull out writing surface, recessed brasses, and terminating on turned bulbous legs. Early 19th Century
Category
American Antique 19th Century Desks
Sheraton Ladies Desk Bureau Mahogany 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
A delightful Sheraton style ladies desk dating to 1890
Rich flame mahogany wood with deep patina
Sheraton style tapering legs typical from this period
Seven drawers giving ample room...
Category
Sheraton Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
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
Regency Rosewood Slant Lid Writing Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Finely crafted with a hinged leather writing lid enclosing a fitted interior comprising drawers. The sides with pull out slides and a drawer for pens and ink. Raised on circular tape...
Category
English Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Rosewood
Quality Antique Victorian Mahogany Inlaid Kneehole Desk by Edwards and Roberts
Located in Suffolk, GB
Outstanding quality antique Victorian mahogany inlaid kneehole desk by Edwards and Roberts having a quality mahogany breakfront shaped top crossbanded in satinwood with a red leather...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Other
19th Century Swedish Gustavian Writing Desk Secretary
Located in San Angelo, TX
This beautiful and unique 19th century Swedish Gustavian writing desk is perfect for any room or hallway. The colors are amazing with th...
Category
Swedish Gustavian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Pine, Paint
$2,396 Sale Price
20% Off
Victorian Pedestal Desk Mahogany 1860
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Victorian mahogany pedestal desk
Circa 1860
This desk stands upon a plinth base
Can you ship to anywhere in the world including the US, please get in touch for a shipping quote
Featu...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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
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
VR Stamped Victoria Regina Hardwood Twin Pedestal Partner Desk Victorian, 1860
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely English Victorian Circa 1880 twin pedestal partner desk with original castors and VR stamped locks for Victoria Regina...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
$1,791 Sale Price
30% Off
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
English Regency Style Red Lacquered Chinoiserie Knee Hole Desk
Located in Queens, NY
English Regency style (19/20th Century) red lacquer Chinoiserie knee hole desk with light brown leather top.
Category
British Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather
Antique 19th century warm brown English Oak Georgian Slant-Front Desk
Located in Casteren, NL
This English slant-front secretary desk, crafted around 1800, is a fine example of late Georgian furniture (circa 1760–1820). This style is characterized by restrained elegance, clean lines, and refined craftsmanship, combining practicality with aesthetic balance. The desk is made entirely of solid European summer oak—an unmistakable mark of quality, especially since similar desks often feature pine for their interior components. The warm, deep brown color, rich patina, and soft sheen give the piece a distinctive and authentic character.
The fall-front is a flat panel fitted with its original brass escutcheon and a working lock. When opened, the writing surface is supported by the two outer top drawers, creating a stable and spacious workspace. The interior is beautifully arranged: directly behind the writing surface lies a recessed well, and behind it a central compartment enclosed by a door, complete with matching working lock and key. Flanking this central section are six small drawers, with open pigeonholes positioned above them, tucked beneath a finely scalloped valance—an elegant layout for organizing correspondence and writing tools.
The construction reveals traditional craftsmanship, including exposed dovetail joints connecting the sides to the top. The drawers are fitted with finely pierced brass hardware, and all locks—on the drawers, fall-front, and interior compartment—operate with a single original key, a rare and telling detail of the desk’s authenticity. The piece stands on classic bracket feet, typical of the period.
The desk is in excellent condition with no defects. It was gently cleaned and treated with a fresh layer of protective wax in our workshop. This graceful historic desk...
Category
British Georgian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
19th Century English Victorian Mahogany Kneehole Desk by Francis & James Smith
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality, unusual, Victorian mahogany kneehole desk by Francis and James Smith, Glasgow. The top, having three leather writing surfaces, each decorated with gold an...
Category
Scottish Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
19th Century English Regency Mahogany Pedestal Desk attributed to Gillows
Located in London, GB
A Fine Mahogany Pedestal Desk
Attributed to Gillow & Co
Constructed from figured mahogany, the desk rising from brass castor-shod feet, the pedestals with lockable doors dressed wit...
Category
English Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
A Victorian Good Quality Pedestal Desk
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
A Victorian Good Quality Pedestal Desk
The desk is made in one of the loveliest woods, figured Birch which has a wonderful dark gold colour, each of the pedestals has three graduat...
Category
High Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Birch
Stamped Gillows Lancaster Double Sided Twin Pedestal Partner Desk Figured Oak
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare Gillows Lancaster twin pedestal double sided partner desk in panelled figured oak
An exceptionally rare exa...
Category
English Early Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Amboyna
$14,522 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique Davenport Desk Walnut Victorian Secretaire 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous Victorian Davenport desk
Hand crafted from burr walnut with amazing patina
Lovingly restored and refinished brown tooled leather writing surface with gilt ...
Category
Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Rare Chinese Export Amboyna and Ebony Campaign Kneehole Desk
Located in Benington, Herts
Rare and outstanding example of an early 19th century Anglo-Chinese export amboyna and ebony campaign kneehole desk retaining the original patina with wonderful colour.
China circa 1830
One of the finest examples you will see, constructed using thick hand sawn cuts of amboyna and solid ebony with ivory stringing and countersunk brass pulls to the camphor wood lined drawers, having brass drop carrying handles to each side. The rectangular top with book matched amboyna veneers enclosed by a solid ebony boarder above a frieze drawer fitted with an adjustable inset velvet lined writing slope flanked by multiple sliding lidded compartments and pen rests.
Below is an arrangement of nine ivory strung drawers and a kneehole recess with foliate carved and pierced ankle brackets, the whole being raised on eight solid ebony turned feet.
This impressive colonial inspired desk is Chinese and would have been intended for the export market. Some years back this desk was often mistaken to have been Anglo-Indian due to the fact it shares many characteristics of Indian furniture...
Category
Chinese Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Ebony, Amboyna
19th Century British Colonial/Anglo-Indian Architects Desk
Located in New York, NY
A mid-19th century British Colonial architects desk from India of indigenous mahogany featuring
four pull drawers, with two false ones on top and two brass handled pull drawers o...
Category
Indian Antique 19th Century Desks
19th Century American Cutler & Sons Model 1 Roll Top Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a glorious piece of Americana namely, a 19th century American Cutler & Sons model 1 roll top desk.
This is the prototype of the well-known Cutler & Sons patented desk...
Category
American American Craftsman Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
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
$907 Sale Price
39% Off
Regency Carlton House Desk Sheraton Inlay 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Absolutely glorious Regency Revival Carlton House desk we date to circa 1880
Features intricate marquetry inlay work - classical Sheraton motifs - on all surfaces
Leather writing sur...
Category
Regency Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Exquisite 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Marquetry Bureau a Cylindre
Located in Long Island City, NY
An Exquisite Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Inlaid Marquetry and Parquetry Bureau a Cylindre
The stepped rectangular top with pierced three quarter gallery ab...
Category
French Belle Époque Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Bureau Plat by François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Louis XV Style gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by François Linke.
The rectangular top inset with a green leather writing surface with gilt-tooled border, within a gilt-bronze su...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
Important Original Edward & Roberts Restored Chinese Thomas Chippendale Desk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this stunning, exceptionally rare and very fine, fully restored Edward & Roberts stamped, Chinese Chippendale desk
The firm Edwards and Roberts were among the best English antique furniture cabinet...
Category
English Victorian Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
19th Century Oak School Desk or Lectern
Located in Nantucket, MA
19th century oak school desk or lectern. Lift top reveals document compartment, over two lower drawers each with inlaid fruitwood key escutcheon (no k...
Category
European Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
Mahogany Sheraton Desk Writing Table 1880
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Sheraton Revival mahogany writing desk.
This desk was made by the well renowned company ''maple and co''
Circa 1880
The desk is raised upon tapered legs with original brass castors.
...
Category
Revival Antique 19th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
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