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SOLD.....Inlaid Mahhogany Kidney Desk

An exceptional quality late Victorian mahogany kidney-shaped desk profusely inlaid with satinwood, harewood and boxwood, depicting harebells, urns swag and shells. The desk has its original green leather and ococo style brass swan neck handles. The drawer linings are also mahogany. A fine example of the late Victorian Sheraton revival style, c.1900.

Dimensions: 53" x 25" x 28"

Price: £6,500
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SOLD.....Victorian walnut partners' desk

A good quality Victorian parners' desk with highly decorative walnut veneers, c.1890. The desk has nine drawers one side and two cupboards and three drawers to the other side. The desk has its original brass fret handles and is on its original plinth base. It is a very good domestic size and has an attractive green leather tooled with gold leaf.

Dimensions: 50 1/2" x 32" x 28 1/2" high

Price: £4,750
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Georgian Desk

A good Georgian mahogany partners' desk, c.1800, with nine cockbeaded drawers to one side and a further three drawers over two cupboards to the other all fitted with original bramah locks. The desk has original ring pull brass handles and is a very good domestic size measuring 52.5" x 34" x 30"(high).

Price: £4,250
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French Bureau en Pente

A superb bureau en pente by Parisian eboniste Charles-Guillaume DIEHL, c. 1860, with signature on the lock plate. The bureau has high quality brass mounts and very fine profuse marquetry inlays. The richly figured satinwood interior retains its orignal blaze of colour whilst the exterior has slightly faded to a lovely soft hue. The hinges are finely engraved. There is a drawer in the side and two small internal drawers.

Diehl exhibited in Paris in 1855 and in the 1867 Paris Exhibition. He made various forms of furniture including boulle, pietre dure, and profusely inlaid furniture of which this is a fine example. See "19th Century Furniture" by Christopher Payne(Antiques Collector's Club, Woodbridge), p.35

Dimensions: 26" (w) x 18" (d) x 34"



Price: £3,900
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William IV Rosewood Writing Table

An attractive William IV rosewood writing table with two working and two opposing dummy drawers with original knob handles on stretcher base, c.1835.
Dimensions: 54" x 24.5" x 29" (h)

Price: £2,250
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Georgian Mahogany Bureau

An attractive Sheraton style mahogany bureau, c.1800, with original oval brass plate handles and original swept bracket feet. The well figured fall is inlaid with boxwood and ebony and the interior is fitted with satinwood drawers and pigeon holes. A very useful piece of Georgin furniture in fine original condition.

Measurements: 42"w x 21"d x 44 1/2" h

Price: £1,250
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SOLD...Walnut Fall Front Escritoire

A good figured walnut fall front escritoire or scriptor, c. 1710, of lovely colour standing on original bracket feet. The top section has a cushion moulded secret drawer beneath the cornice and feather banded fall enclosing a well fitted interior of drawers, and pigeon holes around a central cupboard, the top drawers concealing a series of secret drawers benind.

The well figured base has a cross grained double mould around the top and feather banded drawers. The internal handles are original, the external ones are of period but have been replaced.

Dimensions: 42" x 18 1/2" x 62"

Price: £POA
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SOLD...Victorian Stretcher/ Writing Table

A superb quality early Victurian burr walnut and inlaid stretcher table with two freize drawers, leathered top and brass mounts. An example of Victoroian craftesmanship at its best. The table is completely free standing having inlay on all sides and is in perfect original condition., c.1840.

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SOLD...Aesthetic- style writing table

A very pretty aesthetic style writing table, c. 1880. This is a very finely made piece of furniture made in this increasingly fashionable style. The finely turned legs and top are ebonised mahogany and the drawer fronts veneered in amboyna. The drawers are cedar wood lined.

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SOLD...Mahogany Desk

An early nineteenth century mahogany pedestal desk with three drawers over two useful cupboards with smart leather and gilt tooled top, c.1840.

Dimensions:51" x 27" x 29 3/4" (h)

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Chris Wilde Antiques  7 Imperial Mansions Harrogate Yorkshire HG1 2TA
Tel 01423 758320 or 07831 543268
Email chris@harrogate.com
www.chriswildeantiques.co.uk



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