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Period: 19th Century
Technique: Ebonized
Antique Ebonized Fruitwood Center or Writing Table, Napoleon III Period
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
An imposing Napoleon III center table (or 'Table de Milieu') in ebonized fruit wood, rectangular in shape, with rounded sides.
Its ornate top, which is bordered all around with a gilt bronze frieze and two further inner bands, features at its centre an intricate marquetry inlaid design of a foliage cartouche framing a vase of flowers.
The smoothly curving belt of the table encloses a frieze drawer on one long side, with a repeat, inlaid design that echoes that of the top.
The table rests on four turned, tapered and fluted legs, ending in toupie feet, and these are connected by two half-moon spacers...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th C Louis XVI Style Ebonised Desk with Brass Mounts and New Leather Top
Located in Troy, MI
Found in France, this Louis XVI style desk dates from the 1880s. We had this mahogany desk professionally ebonised in Europe and the leather writing surfaces were also replaced. Lock...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Exceptional Napoleon III Bronze Mounted And Ebonized Writing Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine Antique French Bronze mounted writing table with particularly fine form dating to the late 19th Century. The table features all over Bronze mounts including Caryatid figures o...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
English 19th Century Oak Desk with Ebonized Accents and Gilded Greek Key Frieze
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English oak desk from the 19th century with ebonized accents, carved floral motifs and Greek Key frieze. This 19th-century English oak desk masterfully combines the warmth of oak ...
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19th Century English Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Ebonized Desk
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French Louis XVI Style Ebonized Desk.
Outstanding 19th century French Louis XVI style desk, writing table, bureau plat or center table with a single drawer, solid bronze...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XV Style Bureau Plat
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century glossy ebonized Louis XV style bureau plat with lovely bronze ormolu and black leather top with gilded embossing.
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Ormolu
French Ebonized Writing Table or Desk with Embossed Leather Top
Located in Austin, TX
An elegant French bureau writing desk (or table) of ebonized mahogany, in the Louis XVI style, featuring an embossed leather top with gilt bronze accents over a frieze with fitted dr...
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19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
19th Century Fine Biedermeier Salon Table. Vienna, c. 1825.
Located in Vienna, AT
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This exceptional, early Biedermeier oval writing table was made in Vienna circa 1825.
The table is attributed to the most prolific Viennese cabinet maker during the Biedermei...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
19th Century Biedermeier Walnut Table. Vienna, c. 1825.
Located in Vienna, AT
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This exceptional Biedermeier single drawer table was made during the early Viennese Biedermeier period, circa 1825.
Viennese Biedermeier is distinguished by their sophisticat...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Black Lacquered Louis XV Style Writing Table
Located in London, GB
A French Louis XV style black lacquered writing table or bureau plat. With three working drawers, including original key and blind drawers at the front. Fitted throughout with fine g...
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1890s French Louis XV Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Kingwood
Antique Aesthetic Period Bur Maple Edward & Roberts Writing Table Desk, 19th C
Located in London, GB
This is an elegant antique aesthetic period burr maple and ebonized writing table, stamped 'Edwards & Roberts' circa 1870 in date.
This elegant desk is crafted from the most beautiful maple with ebony banded decoration and ormolu beaded stringing.
The rectangular top is inset with a gold tooled dark green leather writing surface above two frieze drawers. It is raised on elegant twin turned and fluted column supports joined by a decorative stretcher and raised on outswept legs.
It is finished on all sides so that it can stand freely in the centre of your room.
Complete with workig locks and key.
Provenance:
Collection of the late Nigel Alington, Little Barford Manor House, Bedfordshire.
Condition:
In really excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation.
Dimensions in cm:
Height 73 x Width 122 x Depth 63
Dimensions in inches:
Height 2 foot, 5 inches x Width 4 foot x Depth 2 feet, 1 inch
Edwards & Roberts
The firm Edwards & Roberts was one of the best English antique furniture cabinet...
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1870s English Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Maple
Biedermeier Mahogany Ebonized and Parcel-Gilt Globe Form Work Desk
Located in New York, NY
Biedermeier (19th Century) globe-form work desk with a mahogany structure that opens to reveal a several small compartments, with parcel gilt and ebonized detail, with applied lions\...
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19th Century Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Mahogany, Giltwood
19th Century English Chinoiserie Ladies Secretaire Writing Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Extraordinary 19th century English ladies secretaire desk or writing table. The two part desk was made in the Chinoiserie revival period of Europe ...
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19th Century English Chinoiserie Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century Régence Napoleon III Ebonized Desk/Bureau Plat Stamped Gros/Paris
By Benjamin Gros
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent and rare French 19th century Napoleon III ebonized black lacquer Bureau plat or writing desk made in the Régence/Louis XV style made by Benjamin Gros/Paris, ca. 1855.
Rais...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Large Biedermeier Writing Table Early 19th Century Bird's-Eye Maple Veneer
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An unusually large desk, even suitable for two working spaces at a time. The rounded rectangular top with a tooled black leather writing surface above four frieze drawers, two to eac...
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Early 19th Century English Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19thC English Ebonised Bobbin Table / Desk
Located in Staffordshire, GB
Circa 1870
19thC English Ebonised Pine Bobbin Table / Desk
Measures: W98 x D52 x H70cm.
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19th Century Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pine
19th Century Fine Biedermeier Ebonized Oval Table. Vienna, c. 1825.
Located in Vienna, AT
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This exceptional Viennese Biedermeier oval writing table was made circa 1825.
Ebonized Biedermeier pieces were mostly made in Vienna, Austria and account for only 1-2 % of al...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pearwood
19th Century French 'Boulle' Style Table
Located in London, GB
19th century French 'Boulle' Table
A late 19th century French ‘Boulle’ style inlaid table, serpentine in shape, classical scrolling brass inlaid decoration to the top, raised ele...
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19th Century Baroque Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
19th Century Fine Biedermeier Ebonized Table. Vienna, c. 1825.
Located in Vienna, AT
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This fine Viennese Biedermeier writing table was made circa 1825.
Ebonized Biedermeier pieces were mostly made in Vienna, Austria and account for only 1-2 % of all Biedermeie...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Pearwood
English Mahogany & Ebony Desk
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This is an English pedestal desk with two faux drawers just under the ebonized top. All sit on a curved pedestal atop a plinth base with bun feet on top of metal casters. The base is...
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19th Century English Other Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Austrian Biedermeier 1840s Walnut Desk with Three Drawers and Ebonized Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Biedermeier period walnut desk from the mid-19th century, with three drawers and blond patina. Created in Austria during the second quarter of the 19th century, this Biedermeier wa...
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Mid-19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Walnut
Fine French Napoleon III Period Porcelain Plaque Mounted Ebonized Writing Table
Located in Forney, TX
A spectacular French Napoleon III Second Empire period (1852-1870) magnificently decorated ebonized wood writing table.
Exceptionally fine quali...
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Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Porcelain, Oak, Wood
Exceptional 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted English Partners Desk
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional and unusual 19th century Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted English partners desk made for the French market
The rectangular top with gilt-tooled leather writing-s...
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19th Century English Louis XVI Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Antique Mid-19th Century Ebonised Wood, Gilt Bronze and Pietra Dura Desk
Located in London, GB
Antique Mid-19th century ebonised wood, gilt bronze and Pietra Dura desk,
French, c. 1860s
Dimensions: Height 77cm, width 134cm, depth 78cm
This ...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Stone, Ormolu
Petite, 19th Century Veneered Desk
Located in Newport Beach, CA
A beautifully hand-carved and inlaid, c. 1825, Italian, single drawer, tapered leg writing desk with extended tablets on the interior. The whole in walnut, pear, and olive woods with...
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1820s Italian Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Olive, Pearwood, Walnut
French 19th Century Louis XV Style Ebonized Wood and Gilt Bronze-Mounted Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine French 19th century Louis XV style ebonized wood and gilt bronze-mounted figural bureau plat (desk) with three drawers and leather top. The shaped rectangular top enclosing a ...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Swedish Karl Johan Biedermeier Lyre Motif Birch Table, 1825
By Karl Johan
Located in San Francisco, CA
An early Karl Johan-period Swedish Biedermeier lyre motif small birch table with drawer.
Bookmatched birch veneer top with ebonized edge, and birch v...
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1820s Swedish Biedermeier Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Birch
19th Century Writing Desk
Located in London, Park Royal
French, Napoleon III period, writing desk. Handmade in ebonized wood and cased with brass, ormolu.The top is covered with bevelled glass.
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Lovely Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze-Mounted German K.P.M. Porcelain Desk
Located in New York, NY
A lovely late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted German K.P.M. porcelain desk
Decorated all-over with porcelain plaques painted with scenes of courting couples, the upper section with a central cupboard door mounted with a square plaque and nine surrounding drawers, the lower section with shaped top inset with three frieze drawers, each of the corners with a male figure emerging from a scrolled volute, above four tapering fluted and floral-painted porcelain legs with four putti...
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Late 19th Century German Belle Époque Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Pietre Dure Mounted Ebonised Writing Table, circa 1870
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI Style gilt bronze and Pietre Dure mounted ebonised writing table, retailed by Edwards & Roberts.
French, circa 1870.
The drawer edge stamped 'Edwards & Roberts'.
This Fine ebonised writing table has a three-quarter galleried superstructure with cavetto moulding above three cupboards, each with a panel door inset with Fine pietre dure panels of vases issuing flowers. The lower part of the table has a pullout / pull-out writing slide with a dark blue leather writing surface, above a long drawer centred by a tablet mounted with a foliate pietre dure panel. The table is raised on tapering square section legs united by an 'X'-frame stretcher centred by a gilt bronze vase.
The beautiful Florentine pietre dure panels are inlaid in high relief with shaded agates marble, and semi-precious stones. The combination of Fine gilt bronze mounts on an ebonised ground enriched with Fine pietre dure inlay indicates the work of one of the best Parisian ébénistes of the period.
Edwards & Roberts, was one of the principal London companies working in the nineteenth century in the taste of the late Eighteenth Century. They started business in 1845 and by 1854 were trading as 'Edwards & Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture'.
Wardour Street became an important furniture retailing area in the second half of the 19th century. Contemporary documents note '... a fine and complete library...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Agate, Bronze
German Black Forest Oak Side Table with Turned Bobbin Legs, Late 19th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
This German Black Forest side table / desk from the late 19th century features a rectangular top with molding. The top sits on a richly carved apron, adorned with foliage motifs. The...
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Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood, Oak
Regence Style Ebonised Bureau Plat by Sormani, circa 1880
By Paul Sormani
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Regence style ebonised and gilt-bronze mounted bureau plat by Sormani.
Paris, circa 1880.
The central drawer bearing a label for ‘VVE P. SORMANI & FILS 10, r. Charlot Pa...
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Late 19th Century French Régence Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Bronze
French Napoleon III Bureau Plat - Desk
Located in Atlanta, GA
A stunning and very fine 19th century French Napoleon III bureau plat - writing desk. Masterfully constructed in ebonized or lacquered wood, w...
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19th Century French Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Wood
Napoleon III Ebonized Desk with Marble Inlay, France, 19th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Ebonized desk with compartments on either side. Central drawer decorated with a cherub. Marble inlay. Leather top.
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Ebonized Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Marble
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