Lot 35
35
A MID-VICTORIAN BRASS-MOUNTED BURR-WALNUT KIDNEY-SHAPED DESK with pierced interlaced Gothic gallery and green leather-lined writing- surface within a tulipwood, boxwood and ebonised border above a central frieze drawer and two sets of four graduating drawers with vertical lock-stile around a kneehole, with panelled ends and two shelves to the reverse, on plinth base with ceramic castors, restorations

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A MID-VICTORIAN BRASS-MOUNTED BURR-WALNUT KIDNEY-SHAPED DESK with pierced interlaced Gothic gallery and green leather-lined writing- surface within a tulipwood, boxwood and ebonised border above a central frieze drawer and two sets of four graduating drawers with vertical lock-stile around a kneehole, with panelled ends and two shelves to the reverse, on plinth base with ceramic castors, restorations
48½in. (123cm.) wide; 30in. (76.5cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This model is based on a design by Thomas Sheraton in his Drawing Book, London, 1802, pl.58. It seems to have been used by Gillows of Lancaster from 1840 to circa 1860. Holland and Sons supplied a similar desk in 1868 for #27 10s 0d (see: R.W.Symonds and B.B.Whineray, Victorian Furniture, London, 1962, p.196, fig.221)

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