Lot 112
112
A MID-VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT KIDNEY-SHAPED DESK with inset gilt-tooled brown leather writing-surface above one long and two short mahogany-lined frieze drawers, the concave kneehole flanked by two convex-fronted pedestals each with four graduated mahogany-lined drawers with locking stile, the convex-fronted reverse with three central shelves, on moulded plinth base with casters, restorations, with some minor simulated burr-walnut

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A MID-VICTORIAN BURR-WALNUT KIDNEY-SHAPED DESK with inset gilt-tooled brown leather writing-surface above one long and two short mahogany-lined frieze drawers, the concave kneehole flanked by two convex-fronted pedestals each with four graduated mahogany-lined drawers with locking stile, the convex-fronted reverse with three central shelves, on moulded plinth base with casters, restorations, with some minor simulated burr-walnut
52in.(132cm.)wide; 29in.(73.5cm.)high; 28½in.(72cm.)deep

Lot Essay

This model of desk 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 ¨27 102 0d (see: R.W. Symonds and B.B. Whineray, Victorian furniture, London, 1962, p.196, fig. 221)

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