1830s Desks and Writing Tables

Rectangular top with inset red leather over two drawers with wood knobs. and raised on turned tapered reeded legs.

Biedermeier writing desk in walnut, crafted around 1830. Featuring five drawers framed with fine thread inlays and adorned with escutcheons. The gracefully curved S-shaped legs are j...

A.W.N Pugin and Sir Charles Barry. A rare and important Gothic Revival carved oak library table. Probably one of the earliest known pieces to derive from...

Rectangular top with rounded corners over a drawer flanked bu carved Vitruvian scrolls. Trestle base with stretcher and ending on melon form feet. Floor to underside 24.75.

Early 19th Century rosewood library / writing table, the top cross banded in rosewood and having a black leather writing surface decorated with gold and blind tooling, having two fri...

With rectangular top with rounded corners and beautiful tooled brown leather writing surface with banded wood border and brass edge over a central long drawer and flanked by two draw...

A beautiful, pure antique burl walnut desk with a leather top. It is in perfect, original condition. It has a wonderfully weathered look and a warm color. It is finished all around, ...

Wonderful original Biedermeier Desk or Writing Table from Austria about 1830. Beautiful book-matched cherry veneer on softwood. Six hexagonal veneered columns on a veneered pedest...

Early 19th Century mahogany kneehole desk, the rectangular moulded edge top having a black leather writing surface decorated with blind and gold tooling, a selection of nine graduate...

A beautiful and very well made antique William IV writing desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1850 period. It is of superb quality and is a great size. Thi...

Rectangular with an inset tooled black leather writing surface with banded edge over a frieze containing two drawers with opposing working drawers on the reverse all with brass knobs...

A superb antique William IV walnut partners writing table / desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1840 period. The quality is outstanding, this is as fine a ...

Constructed entirely of walnut with ebonized details , the rear of the top is level while the front and majority of the hinged top slopes slightly downward, the tops with a raised g...

A smart and very well made antique William IV leather top desk / writing table. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1840 period. This is of wonderful quality, it...

A stunning and very rare antique leather top Austrian Empire desk, dating from around the 1830-1850 period. This has a beautiful and very useful design, the quality is outstanding. ...

An outstanding antique William IV writing table / desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1840 period. It is of the utmost quality, this stands on bold legs wi...

A rare William IV architect's plan table in mahogany, the top inset with gilt tooled leather above a hinged false drawer front revealing three baize lined trays, on carved bun feet a...

A smart and extremely well made antique William IV writing table / desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1850 period. It is of superb quality and has a usefu...

19th century William IV rosewood library table. The rectangular top with rounded corners features a red tooled inset leather writing ...

A remarkable, and strong early 19th century American Empire secretary bookcase of grand architectural scale with an incredible arched pedimen...

Secretaire flap "Billet douce", also called "portfolio" Veneer of Amboyna burl, rosewood and blackened sticks, resting on two pilasters carried by two fluted pads connected by a turned and fluted spacer. It opens with a flap, Interior in lemontree presenting, in addition to a tablet sheathed in leather, mail lockers and a pen tray with its original glass tank...

Biedermeier desk crafted from walnut, featuring gracefully curved legs and a baluster-shaped central stretcher. The desk offers ample storage with five drawers and an expandable writ...

Very desirable early to mid-19th century ash table, the top comprising two bookmatched planks of highly figured burl ash, having double thickness carved rope twist applied edge, the ...

A superb antique William IV leather top writing table / desk. This was made in England, it dates from around the 1830-1840’s period. This is of wonderful quality, it sits on beautif...

A beautiful, special and very rare flame mahogany Georgian Davenport in wonderful condition. Made by heralded furniture makers Freemans of Norwich, most likely in the 1830s, this fabulous and very much still highly usable Davenport will add superb quality, beautiful colour and bygone sophistication to any interior. Beautifully crafted from flame mahogany, this Davenport is extremely solid and reassuringly heavy. It features a sliding locking desktop ideal for storing a laptop and papers, four large locking drawers to the left side with dummy drawers to the right and a pull-out inkwell drawer complete with ink bottle. A beautiful and extremely rare feature are the pair of concealed slide-out candle holder ledges, much-needed for late-night 19th Century letter writing – this is the only Davenport we know of to have these. The sloping desk is adorned with the original racing green leather centrepiece with gold embellishments and has a bordered flat upper ledge. The front is decorated with four beautiful Corinthian carvings, most likely by William Freeman snr, who was renowned for his superb carving work. It has an impressive and imposing, shapely, Romanesque base and is set on attractive gadroon-mounted wheels for ease of movement. The drawers and dummy drawers have beautiful handles and brass-fronted locks and inside the desk are two opening upper drawers and two lower dummy drawers (where the inkwell slides behind). It has the Freemans stencil to the underside of one the drawers and has pencil marks underneath the base which appears to read “Palmer SC23”, which we haven’t been able to definitively trace but might indicate that it was built for General Charles Palmer, MP for Bath in the early 19th Century, who was married in 1823. Freemans of Norwich were a family of celebrated furniture makers based in the city around the first half of the 19th Century – father William and sons...

A very fine 19th century rosewood writing table in the style of Gillows, having a leather lined adjustable easel top with concealed end compartments, each with fitted interiors, on l...

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...

We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare and important original fully stamped James Winter & Son’s 101 Wardour St Soho London Satinwood & Regency green leather partner desk circa 1830-1850 This is a very rare and fine piece of English craftsmanship, the timber is sublime, the leather top nicely aged and the stamps to the drawer’s crisp, this piece is pure quality The renowned cabinet makers James Winter & Sons were based in Soho London between 1823 to 1870 and produced some amazing pieces of antique furniture. James Winter founded his company in 1823 as a cabinet maker, undertaker, dealer, appraiser and specialised as a restorer of second hand and antique furniture to retail in his Soho shop. His sons joined his firm and then the business was renamed James Winter & Sons, 101 Wardour St., Soho, London. It was throughout the Regency and Victorian period, James Winters Company...