Lot 89
89
LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S DESK
LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S DESK

BY EDWARDS AND ROBERTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S DESK
By Edwards and Roberts, late 19th Century
The leather-inset rectangular top above three panelled and foliate-carved frieze drawers over a central kneehole flanked by deep drawers with foliate-carved angles, with drawers to the reverse and the sides similarly carved on foliate-carved cabriole legs and scroll feet, six drawers stamped EDWARDS & ROBERTS, the locks stamped HOBBS LONDON/MACHINE MADE LEVER
30in. (76cm.) high, 71in. (181.5cm.) wide, 41in. (105.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Established in 1854, the firm of Edwards and Roberts began trading at 2 Wardour Street as 'Antique and Modern cabinet makers and importers of ancient furniture', and by 1898 their business had grown to include a number of other addresses in the vicinity. The firm retailed 17th and 18th-Century furniture and also reproduced furniture in the French Empire and ancien rgime styles, employing the company label or stamp for both its 'antique' furniture and modern productions. For further information, see F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985, pp. 252-253.