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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Antique Danish Chest of Drawers in Oak, Made in Late 18th Century, Louis 16
Located in Odense, DK
Romantic antique chest of drawers, made by a Danish cabinetmaker in 1790-1810.. Louis XVI. This chest features great curves and carving skills and undoubtful high quality. Made in so...
Category
Danish Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Oak
George III Mahogany Secretary
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
George III mahogany secretary, late 18th century. Pediment with dental molding, two glass doors with through mullions, two adjustable shelves and four drawers on the bottom, a central single board slant top, interior with central prospect door flanked by 4 letter slots and 7 drawers, below are 4 graduated drawers with cock beaded moldings, all drawers with locks stamped "Sam Hall...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Antique 18th Century Dutch Burled Walnut Secretary Bookcase with Antique Mirror
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 18th century Dutch Burled walnut secretary bookcase with fitted interior and antique mirror.
Category
Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut, Mirror
Late 18th Century Louis XVI Cylinder Desk with central lock and beautiful patina
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
Late 18th Century Cylinder Desk with beautiful Patina,
1800, France
Cylinder desk with straight sides, closed in the upper part with a semi-circular flap, with two drawers. The whol...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Secretaire, France, 1770
Located in Belmont, MA
Louis XV secretaire, France, 1770.
Beautiful walnut veneer with plum, satinwood and kingwood marquetry.
Exquisite figural marquetry on the outside of the writing top.
The writing ...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Kingwood, Satinwood, Walnut
Georgian 18th Century Mahogany Secretaire Cupboard
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A superb quality late 18th century Georgian mahogany
secretaire cupboard having well figured and banded
top over one secretaire drawer to frieze, enclosing
attractive satinwood in...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
Arbalete Front Chinoiserie Writing Desk, Italy, 18th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Slant/drop front secrétaire commode, with arbalete front. Louis XIV style, decorated with hand-painted chinoiserie scenes.
A very rare and exquisite piece.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Original 18th Century Venetian Secretary Desk Bookcase burled walnut with inlaid
Located in Vigonza, Padua
What makes this piece unique and special is its originali twist to the characteristic Secretaire, a must-have object among Venetian aristocratic families that could not be missing in...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
18th Century English Kashmir Walnut Secretary
Located in Savannah, GA
This is a slant front secretary or bureau made in England circa 1780. It is made of Kashmir walnut (the finest cut of burr walnut) and walnut. The top, ...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
British Colonial Ebony Bureau Bookcase
Located in Greenwich, CT
Exceedingly rare early 18th century English colonial Macassar ebony diminutive bureau bookcase with hexagonal oyster veneered doors, lids and drawer fronts, the sides and secondary timbers all in solid streaky ebony having rich patination, The upper section with two arched mirror doors concealing two adjustable shelves, a row of pigeon holes and two drawers, over single candle slide, the lower section with stepped interior, further pigeon holes and sliding well, over two short and two long drawers and standing on bracket base. Southern India or Sri Lanka, circa 1720.
English colonial furniture...
Category
Sri Lankan William and Mary Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Ebony
18th Century Country French Neoclassical Secretary
Located in Dallas, TX
18th Century Country French neoclassical secretary is a splendid example of the genre, dating to the reign of Louis XVI himself! The period saw ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
English Mahogany George II Secretary
Located in Wilson, NC
English Mahogany George II secretary, has raised serpentine panels. The interior features a prospect door with a geometric inlaid star of ebony and...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
18th Century Flemish Louis XV Secretary Chest of Drawers in Oak
Located in Dusseldorf, DE
A 18th century Flemish Louis XV slanted-flap secretary. Solidly made of oak.
Half-high lateral coffered corpus with 2 large drawers and a slightly recessed superstructure with sla...
Category
Belgian Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Oak
English Mahogany Secretary
Located in Wilson, NC
The top of this secretary has shaped raised panels. It has the original four lever lock and key. The top is fully fitted out with drawers and cubby holes. T...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Italian 18th Century Walnut Slant-Front Secretaire with Ash Inlay and Marquetry
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian walnut and ash slant-front secretaire from the 18th century with three drawers and star shaped marquetry. This exquisite 18th-century Italian slant-front secretaire, craft...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Ash, Walnut
Louis XVI Roll Top Desk, France 1780
Located in Belmont, MA
This unique Louis XVI Roll Top Desk was made in France around 1780. The outside of the secretary desk has a kingwood veneer with a gorgeous mar...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Kingwood, Yew
18th Century French Secretary Desk
Located in Belmont, MA
This gorgeous Louis XV Secretary desk dates back to around 1750-60 and was made in France. The secretaire de dame has a kingwood veneer and a v...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Kingwood
Walnut Chippendale Slant-Front Desk
Located in West Chester, PA
Desk with bold serpentine interior, document drawers with turnings and flames, and block-and-shell prospect door with carved tulip. Case with four gra...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Tulipwood
Important Louis XVI Cherrywood Secretary 18th Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Surprising and rare Louis XVI secretary in cherrywood from the 18th century
Uncommon secretary given its large size of 1m74 and its very beautiful interior
Very beautiful patina an...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Cherry
18th Century Empire Secretary Veneered with Mahogany
Located in Opole, PL
We present you an antique piece of furniture covered with mahogany veneer with beautiful grain. It is topped with a green marble board.
The whole is dated the turn of the 18th and th...
Category
French Empire Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Marble
Spanish Late 18th Century Pine Secretaire with Slanted Desk and Geometric Panels
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Spanish pine tall secretaire from the late 18th century, with carved date, slanted desk and geometric panels. Created in Spain during the last quarte...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Pine
Late 18th-Early 19th C. French Style Chinoiserie 2-piece Secretary/Cabinet
Located in San Francisco, CA
Late 18th-early 19th Century French Style Chinoiserie 2-piece Secretary/Cabinet
Single glass door upper display cabinet
3-drawer bombe form base &...
Category
Chinoiserie Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Wood, Glass
English Chippendale Mahogany Breakfront with Secretary, Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English Chippendale mahogany broken pediment breakfront with carved floral medallions, candle light molding, four upper case glass doors with adjus...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
18th Century Serpentine Bow Front Butler's Desk or Bureau Desk
Located in Madrid, ES
This is a beautiful example of a "Butler's Desk" which was used in the 18th and 19th centuries by the head servant of a household. Basically a bureau combined with a standing desk, clothing and personal items could be stored in lower drawers and important papers and records would be kept in the desk, which closes up and slides into the body of the bureau when not in use. This piece is in particularly fine shape, exhibiting rich wood grain and a sliding desk...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
Exceptional Two Part George I English Secretary Desk in Walnut
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional example of a late George I English secretary desk in walnut, its upper case with a molded broken arch pediment with urn finials surmounting two arched paneled doors, o...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Early George III Period Bureau Bookcase with Swan Neck Pediment
Located in Atlanta, GA
An early George III period bureau bookcase with fretwork swan neck pediment, 30-paned bookcase, slant front enclosed leather writing surface, fitted...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
18th century, Italian Solid Walnut Wood Trumeau
Located in IT
18th century, Italian solid walnut wood Trumeau
Measures: height cm 239, width cm 122, depth cm 52, depth raised cm 30
Elegant Trumeau, made in piedmont, north of Italy, in th...
Category
Italian Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
AMAZING ENGLISH STATIONERY BIN WITH LIFTING 18th Century
By Europa
Located in Madrid, ES
AMAZING STATIONERY BIN WITH LIFTING
English, 18th century.
in lacquered wood.
Gold decoration representing pagodas and river landscapes. Friezes with plant motifs.
Lower body with ...
Category
English Chinese Export Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Lacquer
Chippendale Secretary
Located in Wilson, NC
This English Chippendale secretary has a broken arch cornice with dentil molding and open fretwork in the arch. The upper section has thr...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
English Walnut Secretary
Located in Wilson, NC
English walnut secretary, the top with cove cornice above double ''tombstone''raised panel doors and pull out candle slides; the fitted interior with ...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Queen Anne Japanned Secretary Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
With double arched top over a pair of arched mirror doors opening to a red interior fitted with drawers and shelves, the base with slant lid des...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Oak
George I Figured Walnut Bureau Bookcase with Mirror Doors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Truly a spectacular example of its kind, this grand secretary grabs your attention with its broken arch pediment and doesn't let go until you admire the original bracket feet. In bet...
Category
British George I Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Italian style "bargueño". Tortoiseshell, wood, bronze. 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Uncovered sample desk made of wood, with the central part advanced and highlighted with a double chapel of architectural composition. Each of the sides has five drawers with the front decorated with tortoiseshell and an elaborate golden bronze lock shield (two rampant lions faced, located on a garland and with a shield crowned between them, in which the hollow of the key). The center of the front has two levels: the lower one has four columns with éntasis, two on each side and joined by an entablature and a top finish in dark wood, and a series of gold metal elements in the center between which it stands out, sheltered under a semicircular arch, the figure of Hercules fighting against Caco; the upper one has some moldings forming some recesses, with an important heraldic shield in the center, all enhanced with volutes towards the sides, and different elements in gilded metal, of classicist inspiration.
The general scheme of the furniture responds to a very widespread and valued model in 17th century Europe, of which the best examples have been, as a rule, those of Italian manufacture, and which is continued in the eighteenth century without breaking the compositional clarity of the one that shows in this frontal but yes changing slight decorative details and elements in the area of the central chapel, above all. The practice of using tortoiseshell plates...
Category
European Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Secretary Desk, South German 1780, Walnut
Located in Belmont, MA
This original Louis XVI Secretary Desk dates back to 1780 and comes form the southern part of Germany. It is a real beauty! The lower part has...
Category
German Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
Baroque Secretaire à Trois Corps, 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Large Baroque secretaire on bun feet with a three-drawer commode base with a serpentine front, a writing surface at a height of 80 cm and a broken pediment top part. The doors and dr...
Category
European Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Wood
Baroque Cabinet with Secretaire, Germany, 1750-1760
Located in Belmont, MA
Outstanding baroque cabinet with fall top secretaire, South Germany, 1750-1760. Beautiful walnut veneer with exquisite figural and landscape marque...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Elm, Walnut
18th Century English Painted Bureau
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
18th century English painted oak bureau with a fitted interior, featuring a hidden well and hidden drawers. 1760.
Height to the underside of the fall front is 73cm.
Code: 8523
Dim...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Oak
Early 18th Century Solid Walnut English Bureau Bookcase
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A delightful early 18th century solid walnut bureau bookcase having attractive
double domed top with replacement mirror plates to panelled doors
enclosing well fitted interior abov...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
18th Bargas-style Bargueño Desk with a 19th Century Bridge Table
Located in Marbella, ES
A majestic antique writing desk, richly carved and decorated with gilded details, placed on a sturdy, rustic wooden trestle-style table. The writing desk features multiple compartmen...
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Wood
18th Century English Secretary
Located in New Orleans, LA
Queen Anne period furnishings such as this walnut secretary are incredibly rare and important examples of English cabinetmaking. This secretary is of the most outstanding caliber, boasting desirable double bonnet, mirrored cabinet doors...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
18th Century English Country Secretary in Hand-Carved Oak
Located in Dallas, TX
18th Century English Country Secretary in Hand-Carved Oak is a superlative example of the design, conceived as a piece that takes up no more space than a chest of drawers, but can se...
Category
English Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Danish Louis XVI Bureau. In Cuban Mahogany
Located in Kastrup, DK
Louis XVI bureau made in Cuban mahogany.
Top cabinet as well as the base with fluted quarter columns.
Copenhagen Denmark, circa 1780.
Category
Danish Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
Queen Anne Bureau Bookcase in Inlaid Walnut, c. 1710
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine Bureau Bookcase of the Queen Anne period. The frame constructed in walnut, with inlaid elm designs.
The slanted fall-front opens to reveal a herringbone-inlaid arrangem...
Category
English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
18th Century Mahogany Secretary
Located in Eindhoven, NL
18th century mahogany secretary in beautiful original condition. Nice sleek interior, warm weathered color. Super quality and beautiful mahogany....
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany
Danish Painted Bureau Bookcase
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Unusual 18th century Danish painted bureau bookcase with a very good fitted interior. 1780.
Height to the underside of desk is 77cm.
Code: 8569
Dimensions:
W: 44" (111.8 cm)
H: 80...
Category
Danish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Pine
English George II Secretary
Located in Wilson, NC
The top section of this secretary has three adjustable shelves and has two candlestick pullouts. The interior has a raised panel prospect door flanked by two carved fluted pilaster p...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Baroque Cabinet with Secretaire, Germany 1750
Located in Belmont, MA
Add timeless elegance to your home or office with this original Baroque cabinet featuring a built-in secretary desk, crafted in Germany circa 1750. This exquisite piece originates fr...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
18h Century Louis XVI Walnut Cylinder Bureau / Secretaire
Located in Darmstadt, DE
Beautiful cylinder Bureau from the time of Louis XVI circa 1780-1790. The Secretaire is made of thick saw walnut veneer on a pine wood body, the interior is made also with walnut ven...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
French 18th century J.F. LELEU stamped secretaire à abattant
By Jean-François Leleu
Located in AALSMEER, NL
Exceptionally high quality furniture from an estate of a private collector
Louis XVI Mahogany secretaire à abattant By J.F Leleu with its original ‘Bianca Carrara’ marble top with rounded front corners.
Brown gilded edge calf leather inlay, Turned tapered legs (from top to bottom ) with cannelures, locks and keys working. Panelled sides, flap and doors. General in good vintage condition as comes with the age.
Nice shine, French polish.
Stamped J.F Leleu. Jean Francois Leleu...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
Louis XVI Drop Front Desk, France 1780-1800, Walnut Root Veneer
Located in Belmont, MA
Exquisite Louis XVI drop front desk, France 1780, walnut root veneer with details in cherry, plum and boxwood veneer and Marquetry. The special so...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Boxwood, Cherry, Walnut
18th Century Baroque Cabinet with Secretaire, Germany, 1760
Located in Belmont, MA
18th century Baroque cabinet with secretaire, Germany, 1760, walnut veneer. Beautiful piece in excellent condition, professionally rest...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
18th Century George II Miniature Campaign Bureau Chest on Later Chest Stand
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A GORGEOUS and beautifully proportioned Mid-18th Century George II Miniature Campaign Bureau Chest on later Chest/Stand.
Mid-18th century, made in Britain, circa 1760-1770.
The bureau chest sits on a later stand/chest, that we estimate is late 19th century, circa 1860-1880. It is also British.
We believe that the primary wood in this piece is either Elm or Sycamore with mahogany elements.
Classic Campaign style miniature Bureau Chest, with its ORIGINAL George II brass hardware, including handles on the sides for easy carriage, which is what proves to us, that this chest was made for campaign purposes.
The brasses are GORGEOUS and are classically George II in style, design and construction.
The quality, thickness and patina to the brasses, is what ‘initially’ tells us, that this is a ‘period’ piece and not a reproduction.
Likewise, the dovetailing detail to the drawers, tells us that this was a hand crafted piece and certainly NOT machine made.
The secondary woods appear to be a combination of oak and pine, exactly as one would expect.
The central keyhole escutcheons are FANTASTIC and are in the form of a pair of opposing ‘lyres’.
We have never seen anything like them!
Beautiful natural patina!
The ‘brasses’ look like they have been polished a ‘little too often and vigorously’, over the piece’s 250+ years history … BUT … the bonus of this cleaning is the creation of a rather appealing, '2 Tone effect’, on the patina of the wood around the brasses.
The Bureau has a flat gallery...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Brass
18th Century French Louis XV Period Walnut Chateau Bonheur Du Jour or Secretary
Located in Birmingham, AL
A rare 18th century French Louis XV period chateau bonheur du jour or secrétaire handcrafted of walnut by very talented artisans in Lyon for a wealthy chateau owner near Villeurbanne, circa 1750s. This impressive antique French secretary features a chapeau de gendarme crown above a pair of carved serpentine doors with brass mesh grilles and beautiful green and gold damask fabric backings that open to reveal a painted interior with two display shelves. Three carved drawers are below. The lower section features a flat serpentine shaped writing surface that lifts opens to reveal plenty of storage above a carved, scalloped apron with C-scrolls and a center carved shell motif. Raised on four elegant cabriole legs ending in scrolled French toes. This grand Lyonnaise French library desk...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Iron
18th Century Louis XVI Cylinder Top Secretaire
Located in Belmont, MA
18th century Louis XVI Cylinder Top Secretaire, Paris 1780.
The secretaire stands out for its elaborate kingwood and satinwood marquetry.
The inside is embellished with several dra...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Kingwood
Fine Inlaid Georgian Secretary with Falconer Pediment, Probably by Gillows
Located in Richmond, VA
Very good inlaid Georgian secretary with a falconer pediment, probably by Gillows. The secretary features glazed doors surrounded by inlaid stop flu...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Mahogany, Satin
18th Century Italian Walnut Parquetry Important Bureau Cabinet Trumeaux
Located in Rome, IT
An Italian walnut, parquetry bureau cabinet fruitwood inlaid with scrolling foliage,
The upper section with a shaped carved cresting, a shaped doors opening to reveal three shelves, ...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Wood
Secretaire intarsiato lombardo Neoclassico XVIII secolo
By Non-Standard Furniture and Lighting
Located in Milano, IT
Secretaire neoclassico realizzato alla fine del XVIII secolo. Realizzato con due ante nella base, anta a ribalta con scarabattolo e cassetto sotto piano. Realizzato in noce e poi imp...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Walnut
Neoclassic Period French Commode W/Hidden Butler's Secretary & Writing Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Neoclassical commode, with hidden secretary and original hardware, from the turn of the 18th and 19th century. This antique commode from France gives the appearance of being a three drawer chest at first glance. However, discreetly hidden behind the upper "drawer" is in fact a fall-front, which opens to reveal a small writing desk with three open cubbies for organization within. The lower portion of the chest houses two full-sized drawers. The rectangular-shaped top has pronounced and rounded front corners, which carry through down the side posts and are flute-carved. Each drawer front is adorn with brass trim and retains the original brass (and really great) hardware; a pair of rectangular bail pulls with a beautiful Neoclassic escutcheon set at center. This commode is presented upon conical legs with exaggerated tops that canopy over their tapered feet. The rich fruitwood has a wonderful old patina throughout. Note that there have been some prior repairs to the top. This late 18th century French...
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French Neoclassical Antique 18th Century and Earlier Secretaires
Materials
Wood
