Rococo Desks

A Swedish secretary with library from the Rococo period, circa 1760. The upper section has two shaped shelves and a multitude of small drawers. The slant front opens to reveal six wa...

Late Circa 18th century Swedish fall front bureau. The interior comprises of small drawers and compartments over three long deep drawers. The bureau comes in one piece and features d...

With shaped arched cornice over a pair of doors enclosing a red painted interior with shelves over a fold down slant lid writing surface fitted with drawers, over seven drawers with ...

This magnificent commmode has a top shaped in the form of an archer's bow slightly rounding back and then straightening at the corners, the confomring case housing 4 drawers and havi...

This is a Swedish Rococo Secretary Hutch, it was found at an estate auction in Dalana, Sweden. This piece has been restored and repainted with...

Rococo style center table or writing desk. Exquisite Paris green color displaying fabulously detailed lion's paw feet. In the style and desig...

A French, 18th century, walnut slant top desk with leather insert. Some restoration to feet.

A French Louis XV period, black lacquer petit bureau plat with Chinoiserie decoration and gilt metal mounts.

An 18th Century Italian Veronese Walnut and Burl Walnut Serpentine Front Slant Front Desk.

A superb North German figured walnut, giltwood and gilt-gesso bureau cabinet, the moulded cornice above a mirror panelled door enclosing a fitted interior, above a hinged fall front enclosing various drawers, above three graduating long drawers with gilt-bronze handles, the stand with an elaborate bow-knot-tied pierced apron, the sides with applied parcel-gilt foliate cartouches. Furniture of this design incorporating walnut and scrolling pierced giltwood elements is generally associated with Altona, one of the leading centres of furniture production in 18th century Northern Europe. The small giltwood scrolls applied to the edges of both upper and lower parts are very characteristic of the work of Altona cabinet-makers; also characteristic of their production is a pierced giltwood stand such as on the offered piece. Related examples are illustrated, Annette-Isabell Kratz, Altonaer Möbel des Rokoko und Klassizismus, Hamburg, 1988. The present writing cabinet is a masterpiece of the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism from the Altona workshop of the celebrated ébénist Johann Friedrich Köster, 1747-1812. Such representative and costly pieces were commissioned by the North German and Danish aristocracy not only to furnish the palaces in Schleswig-Holstein, but also as a symbol of status. The type of a mirrored bureau...

An extraordinary early 18th century Italian Lombardy possibly Milan Rococo slant front desk of burl walnut and applied baroque ebonized moulding.