19th Century Kidney Shaped Desk

19th Century Kidney Shaped Desk

A very fine 19th century rosewood & tulipwood ormolu mounted kidney-shaped pedestal desk. 

The kidney-shaped leather top has recently been re-lined with an antique black hide with broken gilt tooling. The edging is bevelled in tulipwood and the top is inlaid and crossbanded with tulipwood and rosewood veneers and retains the original gilt brass gallery. 

The ormolu mounts that decorate the frieze and flank the slender rosewood and tulipwood banded drawer fronts are neatly and uniquely crossbanded with stringing to the inside banding only and this feature can be seen throughout the desk. The drawer fronts are adorned with all the original gilt brass rococo handles and fitted with brass escutcheons and locks. The four graduated mahogany lined drawers to each pedestal base are fitted with brass locks and the majority of these are original and stamped with the manufacturer of the day's impress. 

The kidney-shaped desk is made in three parts with a detachable top and two bases and unlike the one piece kidney-shaped desk that Gillows made, this desk is more practical to move. 

The desk is highly figured throughout with full length rosewood veneers to the sides and back of the pedestal bases.  They are framed in faux panelled sections that match the frieze to the reverse. 

The desk stands on a thumbnail moulded ormolu mounted rosewood veneered plinth base and raised on concealed castors.

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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