A VICTORIAN OAK PEDESTAL DESK, the moulded green baise-lined rectangular top above a central frieze drawer with swagged seraphim handle, flanked by a pair of panelled doors carved in relief with the Annunciation and the Madonna and Child and enclosing a plain interior, the reverse similarly carved with a kneeling figure of Christ and further Biblical scenes, the ends with Patron Saints within a foliate-wreath, on a moulded plinth and ring-turned feet with castors, restorations, the end panels 17th Century and re-used | Christie's

Lot 73

A VICTORIAN OAK PEDESTAL DESK, the moulded green baise-lined rectangular top above a central frieze drawer with swagged seraphim handle, flanked by a pair of panelled doors carved in relief with the Annunciation and the Madonna and Child and enclosing a plain interior, the reverse similarly carved with a kneeling figure of Christ and further Biblical scenes, the ends with Patron Saints within a foliate-wreath, on a moulded plinth and ring-turned feet with castors, restorations, the end panels 17th Century and re-used

Details

A VICTORIAN OAK PEDESTAL DESK, the moulded green baise-lined rectangular top above a central frieze drawer with swagged seraphim handle, flanked by a pair of panelled doors carved in relief with the Annunciation and the Madonna and Child and enclosing a plain interior, the reverse similarly carved with a kneeling figure of Christ and further Biblical scenes, the ends with Patron Saints within a foliate-wreath, on a moulded plinth and ring-turned feet with castors, restorations, the end panels 17th Century and re-used
68½in. (174cm.) wide; 33in. (84cm.) high; 34in. (86.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Almost certainly commissioned by Peter Langford-Brooke (d. 1840)

Lot Essay

This pedestal-desk, designed in the romantic 'Old English' or Elizabethan manner, almost certainly for the New Hall, is listed in The 1840 inventory as an 'Antique carved oak writing table with drawers & c & c'

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