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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
18th C. Italian Lacca Povera Accent Table or Petite Desk w/its Original Finish
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian occasional table with its original laca povera finish from the 18th century. This antique table from Italy retains its original "Lacca Povera" finish also known as laca povera, arte povera, lacca contrafatta, decalcomania, and perhaps more commonly, decoupage. This is the artistic technique of adorning a furniture surface with paper prints and lacquered layers which was perfected and made popular during the 17th and 18th century. This table has a rectangular-shaped top, a small drawer housed in the apron, and is raised on squared legs which taper gently towards their feet. The leg clearance from underside of skirt to floor is approximately 26.25 inches. This 18th century Italian lacca povera...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Magnificent George II Mahogany Library Table
Located in London, GB
A MAGNIFICENT GEORGE II MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE, CIRCA 1740
The frieze with three oak-lined drawers to each side. Original locks and handles. The handles and back-plates retain their...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Kingwood And Tulipwood Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sensational and elegant French 18th century Louis XV period kingwood and tulipwood inlaid desk, with all of its original ormolu and hardware. The desk is raised by slender cabriole...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Rare 1794 George III Gillows of Lancaster Double Sided Postmasters Sorting Desk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare 1794 George III Gillows Lancaster twin pedestal double sided postmasters desk i...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$19,362 Sale Price
30% Off
18th Century English Mahogany Leather Top Partners Desk with Carved Birds
Located in Milford, NH
A fine proportion mahogany rectangular partners desk with brown leather top with a crossbanded border with delicate carving, surmounting a frieze with two fitted and cockbeaded document drawers...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
18th Century Oak Country Side Writing Table
Located in Madrid, ES
A nice French country writing table, Louis XVI period, in solid oak, with a long drawer and drawer handle in bronze, the legs finished in sabot.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Spanish Walnut Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
An 18th century walnut table. Soundly constructed from walnut, with original hand forged wrought iron braces and classical lyre shaped legs.
Wonderfully worn and aged patina, some ...
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Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
17th Century Spanish Console
Located in Houston, TX
17th century Spanish walnut console table with two drawers, splayed legs and iron stretcher. The top is a single piece of walnut.
Category
Spanish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
$12,000
1790 Gillows Cuban Hardwood Library Secretaire Desk Writing Table I Bramah Lock
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare circa 1790 George III Library writing desk secrataire by Gillows of Lancaster and London
A rare find, looking through Gillows of ...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$19,358 Sale Price
30% Off
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Berlin, DE
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
An 18th century gilt-bronze mounted double-face desk or bureau plat with herring-bone marquetry. The k...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Antique 18th Century Great Quality Bureau In Oak ( REF AF-3519 )
Located in Ledbury, GB
This impressive 18th-century antique oak bureau is a stunning example of classic craftsmanship and elegance.
Standing on traditional bracket feet, the bureau has a sturdy, balanced ...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Georgian Mahogany Architects Table
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
A 18th century architects table with a single drawer which opens to reveal a several compartments. The front of the table is decorated wi...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Large Louis XVI Marquetry Desk or Bureau à Cylindre
By Jean Kisling
Located in Berlin, DE
French 18th century large Louis XVI marquetry desk or bureau à Cylindre
An exceptional marquetry secrétaire in the form of a bureau with a cylinder front and on a stand with four ...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Baroque Table, Switzerland, 1770
Located in Belmont, MA
Baroque table, Switzerland, 1770.
This pretty Baroque table dates back to the Rococo period and comes from Berne in Switzerland. The base with the curved legs is made of cherry wood....
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Swiss Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry, Kingwood
$2,560 Sale Price
20% Off
Louis XVI French Fruitwood Architect’s Table
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A Louis XVI period French architect’s table in fruitwood with an adjustable leather-inset drafting top. The table features a single drawer, slide-out candle supports, and classic tap...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal
Sheraton Period Rosewood Artist's Boneur Du Jour
Located in London, GB
An unusual late 18th century Sheraton period rosewood artist's Bonheur du Jour boxwood and ebony strung and satinwood banded throughout, having brass galleried upper part above fold-...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Rosewood
18th Century, French Wood Centre Desk
Located in IT
18th century, French wood centre desk
Measurements: cm W 95 x D 63,5 x H 71,5 (maximum leg H 57,5)
The elegant centre desk was built in northern France...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Satinwood
Table, Centre, Dining, Writing, Walnut, Octagonal, French, Renaissance
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- This table is a rare and attractive octagonal form with characteristic Renaissance legs.
- It can serve as centre, dining or writing table.
- The...
Category
French Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Italian 17th Century Baroque Painted Walnut Centre Table
Located in Troy, NY
Strikingly decorative Venetian table of highly unusual and rare form, early 17th century.
The oblong molded top enhanced with gilt decoration, above a double frieze with conforming ...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Walnut
George II Burl Walnut Lowboy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Walnut and burl walnut lowboy with crossbanding around the top, satinwood inlay on the front, and having original brass pulls. Standing on cabriole legs ending on Spanish feet...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$3,375 Sale Price
25% Off
18th C. English Architect's Table w/Unique Legs, Expanding Top, & Candle Shelves
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English expandable architect's table with candle stands from the 18th century. This antique table from England would have originally been used as an architects work desk, complete with a pair of small shelves that pull out from either side of that table, that would have supported candles for lighting. The rectangular-shaped top rests atop an apron that houses a faux-drawer with single brass handle, that when pulled, reveals an extension to the table. This slide out wood top is lined with leather, creating an additional writing pad surface. The leather top an also be slid back under the main top, keep legs out, granting access to storage within (see images for more details on this). Carved bracket accents adorn the underside of the skirt against each of the squared outer legs, which partially wrap the outer edges of the nicely-turned inner legs (which are slightly longer and terminate into petite caster feet). Needless to say, this piece has very interesting legs! A curvy x-style stretcher bar braces the legs under the bottom center for additional support. Note that the pull out leather top adds an additional 28" x 13" table top work space, with a floor clearance underneath of 24". This 18th century English architect's table, with expanding leather writing top...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Center Writing Table, Francesco and Giuseppe Cassina, Milan, January 26, 1796
By Francesco and Giuseppe Cassina
Located in Milano, IT
Center writing table
Cassina Brothers (Francesco and Giuseppe)
Milan, January 26, 1796
79.5 x 94 x 58.5 cm
State of conservation: excellent
The rectangular table features a minimall...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Mahogany, Walnut
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Bureau Plat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A magnificent and very high quality French 18th century Louis XV period Tulipwood, Kingwood, and ormolu Bureau Plat desk. The desk is raised by elegant cabriole leg with exquisite pierced fitted ormolu sabots with fine foliate designs and hoof feet below a delicate ormolu chute leading upwards to impressive richly chased ormolu masks of handsome bearded men. The apron displays three drawers separated by impressive curved foliate gadroon designs each displaying superb quarter veneered Kingwood...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Antique 18th Century Bureau of Small Proportions In Mahogany ( REF AF-3506 )
Located in Ledbury, GB
This exquisite 18th-century antique bureau in rich mahogany is a perfect blend of elegance and functionality.
Standing on sturdy bracket feet, this piece features three drawers, eac...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Antique George III Quality Mahogany Knee Hole Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality mahogany knee hole desk having a quality mahogany rectangular shaped crossbanded top with a moulded edge above one long and six small cockbeeded oak lined drawers with original brass handles, secret drawer to the knee hole and a single panelled door...
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English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Other
Louis XIII Period 1630s Carved Walnut Barley Twist Table with Black Painted Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
Lose yourself in the grandeur of French history with this exquisite Louis XIII period writing table, crafted in walnut circa 1630. This rare piece features a striking black painted t...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Table Centre Desk Writing Walnut Double Dolphin Handle Genoa Baroque
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Unusally Large Italian Walnut Centre, Occassional or Writing Table, Genoa
Unusual large size with classical elegance and form
Conceived as a center table as the frieze decoration...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
18th Century Sheraton Satinwood 'Bonheur du Jour'
Located in London, GB
An unusual late 18th century satinwood 'Bonheur du Jour,' boxwood and ebony line inlaid throughout, having fiddle-back mahogany bow paneled doors with central drawer and recess, abov...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Satinwood
Desk English Leather Brown Mahogany 18th Century England
Located in New York, NY
Desk English Leather Brown Mahogany 18th Century England. Desk made for architecture work. England 18th Century. Made in mahogany with brass hardw...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
$5,000 Sale Price
58% Off
Table Rent Center Desk Tavolino Tuscan Italian Walnut Oval Baroque
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Exceptionally rare, large, museum quality, Tuscan, Baroque, walnut, rent or center table or tavolino with detachable top and single drawer
- This beautiful, rent table is an unco...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
EXQUISITE ANTiQUE GEORGIAN IRISH 1780 RESTORED BROWN LEATHER WRITING TABLE DESK
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely exquisite fully restored Georgian Irish circa 1780 double sided writing table...
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Irish Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Wood
Walnut Two Drawer, Rounded Corner Desk, Italy, 17th Century
Located in New York, NY
17th century Italian walnut two drawer desk.
Square column shaped legs.
Subtly rounded corners.
Finished on both sides, so can float in a room.
ARRIVING NOVEMBER.
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Louis XV Provincial Walnut Writing/Games Table
Located in Essex, MA
Originally a folding base with removable top. Now in a fixed position with a rectangular top with tooled brown leather. Cabriole legs.
Category
French French Provincial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
17th century Italian Baroque walnut Credenza or Desk
Located in Troy, NY
A rare, multi-functional piece, the doors opening to reveal a fitted interior with eight drawers and a small middle door, the slanted top with a fall front desk compartment...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Desk Swedish Baroque Period 18th Century Veneer Sweden
Located in New York, NY
Desk Swedish Baroque Period 18th Century Veneer Sweden. A stunning desk made during the Baroque period in Sweden. Veneered with elm and burl woo...
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European Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Circa 1780 Chinese Export Solid Camphor Wood Campaign Roll-Top Desk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Chinese export solid camphor wood campaign bureau à cylindre or roll-top desk, circa 1780. An extremely rare example - entirely of beautifully figured camphor wood which has mellowed...
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Chinese Campaign Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
18th Century Painted Oak Bureau Bible Box on Stand
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A wonderful characterful late 18th century portable painted carved oak bureau or bible box on a stand. There is carved detail throughout, in a mainly fl...
Category
British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
$2,101 Sale Price
60% Off
18th Century Veneered and Inlaid Wood Italian Louis XV Writing Desk
Located in IT
The elegant antique north Italian (Genoa) Louis XV period writing desk, called also bureau plat, is made of veneered and inlaid woods. It have a beautiful wavy line with slender but ...
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Italian Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French 18th Century Louis XV Bureau Plat, Writing Desk
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An imposing Louis XV ebonized writing table with finely chased gilt bronze mounts. The stepped moulded rectangular top inset with the original gilt-tooled leather above three frieze drawers with elaborate ormolu handles and escutcheons, the reverse conformingly organized with three simulated drawers, allowing this bureau plat to be freestanding, the cabriole legs with sabot feet headed by female masks.
The iconic Coco chancel lived with a Rococo writing desk...
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French Rococo Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
George III Mahogany and Red Leather Topped Writing Table
Located in London, GB
A George III Mahogany and Red Leather Topped Writing Table With adjustable ratcheting writing slope, three front drawers and brass handles, on straight mahogany legs. English, c.1760...
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George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
George III Satinwood Bonheur du Jour
Located in Basildon, GB
A Satinwood Bonheur du Jour with painted panels and glazed doors, maroon leather writing fold, ebony inlaid square tapering legs and painted brackets. After a design by Hepplewhite. ...
Category
British George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Satinwood
17th Century Italian Renaissance Walnut Table
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb Italian Renaissance walnut table from the 17th century
Table that can be used as a desk or a small dining room table
It has a very beautiful walnut top with a beautiful thickn...
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Italian Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Italian, Bologna, LXIV Period Shaped Walnut & Inlaid 2-Drawer Table, ca. 1715
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a rectangular top with notched corners and line inlay above a conforming case housing two drawers, raised on turned and block legs with lozenge form carvings near the feet
Category
Italian Louis XIV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Italy 18th Century Baroque Walnut Organic Shape Table Desk
Located in Brescia, IT
This walnut rectangular Tuscany table, has been hand made in Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) in 1760 circa.
Its elegant shape, with the black border, makes this ...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
18th Century George III Period Mahogany Writing Table Stamped W.Priest
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A Very Fine 18th Century George III Period Mahogany Writing Table Stamped W. Priest / 1&2 Tudor Street / Blackfriars
A very fine late 18th-century George III period mahogany partner...
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British George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th century Queen Anne and later walnut knee hole desk
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
18th century Queen Anne walnut kneehole desk circa 1710.
Good quality knee hole desk of small proportions, richly veneered in burr walnut. Rectangular top, strung and cross banded, ...
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English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
George I Walnut Bureau
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality early 18th century George I walnut bureau, having a fall front opening to reveal a fully fitted interior comprising of drawe...
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
$5,530
Small Louis XV Side Table - France, 18th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Charming carved table on cabriole legs, with central drawer.
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
18th Century French Walnut Barley Twist Library Table
Located in High Point, NC
18th century walnut library table from France. The top is made from two planks and is banded with a beveled edge, following down to a simple apron, which contains a single drawer in the front. The table is supported on hand turned barley and vine twist...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
George III Period Mahogany Fitted Desk Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
An 18th century mahogany desk or sometimes called architects desk, with fitted top drawer containing a baize lined wiring surface below which is a fitted section contains alphabet inlaid letter boxes The double top drawer slides out on hidden rollers and the baize section then slides back.
Original swan neck brass handles and fine flame mahogany. finished with dummy drawers to the back making this a free standing desk.
A model is in the Gillow design...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
18th Century Spanish Trestle Style Writing Table, Rich Wood Grain, Iron Hardware
Located in Madrid, ES
This 18th century Spanish trestle style writing table has a tabletop of one single wide plank, and the leg sections, or trestles, are joined with sliding dovetail joints and fastened...
Category
Spanish Rustic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
$8,058 Sale Price
25% Off
George II Mahogany Harlequin Table
Located in Dallas, TX
A George II mahogany pier/tea/games bureau-table. The mahogany top is supported on a hinged back leg when opened. The top when opened conceals the game table and a harlequin pop-up c...
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English George II Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Spanish Renaissance Style Walnut & Wrought Iron Vargueno
Located in Queens, NY
Spanish Renaissance style (17th Century and Later) wrought iron mounted walnut vargueno on later stand with a fall front enclosing 3 long drawers.
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Spanish Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Antique George III Quality Walnut Kneehole Desk
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique George III quality walnut kneehole desk having a quality figured walnut crossbanded top above one long and six walnut inlaid oak lined drawers with engraved brass handles, cu...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
French Louis XV Late 18th Century Cherry Table with Drawer from the Rhône Valley
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French Louis XV cherry table from the Rhône Valley, with long drawer and cabriole legs. Born in France in the later years of the 18th century, this cherry table features a rectangular top with serpentine front, sitting above a long drawer. Raised on four elegant cabriole legs connected to one another through an apron scalloped on all sides, this late 18th century Louis XV cherry table will bring an undeniable touch of French elegance...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Cherry
18th Century, Gentleman's Writing Desk and Games Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful, circa 1780, hand carved, petite writing desk inset with game chess and backgammon game boards. The top featuring its original, inset marble. The whole on tapered legs term...
Category
French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
18th Century Lacquered Tuscan Desk Table with Hand Painted Decoration
Located in Atlanta, GA
An elegant lacquered wooden desk table from Tuscany, dating to the Louis XVI period, late 18th century. This refined piece features delicate hand-painted neoclassical decorations in ...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine
Baroque Wood and Iron Spanish Folding Traveling Table
Located in Leesburg, VA
Baroque Wood and Iron Spanish Folding Traveling Table
Anonymous
Spain; 18th century
Wood, iron
Approximate size: 27 (h) x 38 (w) x 19.5 (d) in.
An 18th-century Spanish folding tab...
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Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Iron
Dressing Chest
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An 18th century mahogany dressing chest with bookcase and writing surface, designed by Thomas Chippendale. An attractive, practical and compact piece of...
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English Chippendale Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mahogany
$33,185
French Marquetry Slant Top Ladies Writing Desk, Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
French marquetry ladies slant top three-drawer writing desk with floral motif inlay, flanking step back interior drawers, leather writing surface, carved scalloped skirt, original or...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century and Earlier Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Gold, Ormolu
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