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LoveAntiques Dealersince Jan 2018Approved item2931 sales by dealer
Quality George III style mahogany pedestal desk, the top with insert green embossed and gilded leather, with broad flamed mahogany cross banding with a simple moulded fore-edge, the frieze with a configuration of one long drawer flanked by a pair of shorter ones, all with cast brass swan neck handles with pierced flower shape back plates, the drawers in the top have ‘Chubb patent locks, London’, resting on a pair of pedestals each with a bank of three graduating drawers with similar handles to the top with flame mahogany facings and cock beading, beneath the bottom drawer there is a beading that runs around the entire desk which is polished on all sides making it freestanding, each of the pedestals are supported on four French bracket feet.
measurements
Height:
78 cm
Width:
140 cm
Depth:
60 cm
measurements
declaration
Georgian Antiques has clarified that the Georgian Style Mahogany Pedestal Desk c.1880 (LA556509) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1880