Antique Edwardian Sheraton Revival Inlaid Desk c.1890 Price: £2900

We are delighted to be able to offer for sale this gorgeous antique Edwardian pedestal desk dating from around 1890. Crafted in solid mahogany it is crossbanded with boxwood and ebony line inlay. This antique Sheraton Revival desk has a tan leather writing surface...

Antique Victorian Burr Walnut Pop Up Davenport Desk c.1860 Price: £2850

This is a gorgeous antique piano fronted Victorian Davenport dating from around 1860. This antique Davenport desk is crafted from fabulous burr walnut and features a wonderful hinged gilt tooled green leather inset. This antique burr walnut pop up desk has been...

Antique Victorian Flame Mahogany Writing Library Center Table 19th C Price: £2850

We are delighted to be able to offer for sale this fantastic antique writing table dating from the 19th Century. This Victorian library centre table is oval in shape and fashioned from beautiful flame mahogany which has been polished to perfection. The top of this...

Empire Style Walnut Rosewood Ormolu Writing Table Price: £1850

Dating from the last quarter of the 20th century, this is a lovely example of an Empire style walnut rosewood writing table. This walnut rosewood writing table has beautiful ormolu mounts and a tooled leather writing surface featuring a Grecian ‘key’ pattern. There...

Bombe Louis XV Style Bureau Plat Writing Table Desk Price: £1550

Dating from the last quarter of the 20th century this is a fine example of a Louis XV style writing table and bombe bureau plat. Crafted from fine mahogany and satinwood it features a very striking hand-gilded and tooled leather writing surface. It comprises five...

Antique Monumental 7ft French Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat Desk 19th Century Price: £22,500

We present to you this is a fine and rare antique ormolu bureau plat desk. It is a mounted French kingwood bureau plat after Charles Cressent, dating from around 1860. It bears the label of Bedle & Cie and features wonderful highly decorative ormolu mounts. The...

Vintage Mahogany Chippendale Nostell Priory Partner’s Desk 20thC Price: £11750

We feel fantastically privileged to present this fabulous flame mahogany lion's head Chippendale partners desk. It is an exact replica of the desk supplied by Thomas Chippendale to Sir Rowland Winn in 1767 for his residence, Nostell Priory in Yorkshire and, in our...

Antique French Ormolu Mounted Louis Revival Bureau Plat Desk c1860 Price: £9750

We present to you a lovely piece. This is a truly gorgeous antique French bureau plat in kingwood, crafted in the Louis Revival style and featuring highly decorative ormolu mounts, dating from around 1860. This antique French bureau plat has a rectangular top with...

Antique Marquetry Carlton House Desk Writing Table Druce & C0 19th C Price: £9500

We take huge pleasure in presenting this beautiful mahogany, satinwood and marquetry antique Carlton House desk by the renowned London retailer and cabinet maker Druce & Co, dating from around 1880. The top of this antique Carlton House desk is surmounted with a...

Antique French Boulle Centre Table / Bureau Plat c.1870 Price: £5750

This is an absolutely stunning tortoiseshell antique boulle centre table - a French bureau plat - the last word in opulent luxury, dating from around 1870. This French bureau plat is beautifully inlaid in cut brass on tortoiseshell with winged cherubs, a cupid and...

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SOLD: US Presidents Resolute Partners Desk 20th Century

SOLD: This is a very impressive Resolute partners desk, the one that many people secretly desire to own, a replica of the Resolute desk as gifted by Queen Victoria to US President President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and which has been in use in the Whitehouse ever...

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Antique Burr Walnut & Marquetry Writing Table Desk c.1870

This is a really elegant English Victorian burr walnut and marquetry writing table dating from around 1870. The writing surface area features delicate foliate marquetry and has an uncommon shaped gold tooled chocolate brown leather inset which lifts to expose a big...

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Antique Victorian Writing Table c.1880 – Price £3,450

Crafted from that much sought after and admired wood, burr walnut, this is a very fine and decorative Antique Victorian Writing Table dating from around 1880 and immediately available to be shipped to almost any worldwide destination. The writing table top has two...

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Antique Empire Ormolu Desk Louise Philippe Style c.1880

We are offering for sale, at the attractive price of just £3350, this very distinguished Antique Empire Ormolu Desk in the Louise Philippe Style and dating from around 1880. This antique French desk is made in the classical Empire style from solid mahogany and is...

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Antique Edwardian Sheraton Desk in Satinwood c.1890

We are delighted to be able to offer our customers this very nice example of an Antique Edwardian Sheraton Desk which we have dated to around 1890. This antique Edwardian Sheraton desk is truly special - it is offered for sale in excellent condition, having been fully...

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Regency Library Table in Burr Walnut & Ormolu

A very nice example of a Burr Walnut & Ormolu Regency Library Table which we are delighted to be able to offer for sale in excellent condition at only £2250. As you can see from the images this Regency library table would suit being placed in a variety of...

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Antique Edwardian Writing Table or Desk c.1900

This is an interesting antique Edwardian Writing Table Desk featuring inlaid decoration and dating from around 1900. The writing table is crafted from beautiful rosewood and is supplied complete with a sumptuous gold tooled green leather writing surface that can be...

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Victorian Amboyna Inlaid Antique Bonheur Du Jour

Believed by our experts to date from around 1860, this Antique Victorian Bonheur Du Jour is an imposing and functional item of furniture that is so typical of the Victorian era. We are pleased to be able to offer for sale, in excellent condition, this Victorian...

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Queen Anne Antique Bureau Bookcase c. 1720

Here we have a very fine Antique Queen Anne Double Dome Bureau Bookcase in Burr walnut and dated by our experts to have been made around 1720. Although Queen Anne actually reigned from 1702 until her death in 1714, furniture made after that period is often described...

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Antique English George III Bureau Dating From Around 1780

We are pleased to be able to offer this English Antique Bureau, circa 1780 (George III) in date for sale in excellent condition and at the very attractive price of just £1250 with free UK mainland shipping. This antique bureau has been beautifully crafted from fine...

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Figured Walnut Antique Writing Table Desk c.1900

This is a fabulous antique writing table in figured walnut, made in the Victorian manner dated about 1900. We are delighted to offer this wonderful antique writing table in such splendid condition for just £1,350. It has been superbly crafted from a particularly...

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Antique Victorian Partners Pedestal Desk C1870

We are delighted to offer for sale this wonderful example of a Victorian Partners Pedestal Desk, dating from circa. 1870. This wonderful Victorian Partners Pedestal Desk is crafted from a rich mahogany which has got a spectacular patina, satinwood boxwood and features...

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Satinwood & Rosewood Carlton House Desk

This stunning Carlton House desk is a delight, featuring beautiful hand painted decoration. As you can see from the above photo, this beautiful Carlton House desk has been made from the very finest satinwood. It also features rosewood crossbanding and the superb...

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Art Deco Desk in Birdseye Maple

In the ever popular Art Deco of the 1920's style, this writing table desk is crafted in stunning Birdseye Maple. Antique furniture made out of Birdseye Maple is rare and coveted for its beauty. When all furniture was essentially handmade, you had to be an extremely...

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An Antique Satinwood & Marquetry Bureau de Dame c.1880

At Desirable Desks we know that the Victorian style of furniture is always popular with our customers. We are, therefore, delighted to be able to present this lovely antique Victorian satinwood and marquetry bureau de dame with ormolu mounts which was made around...

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Antique French Writing Table With Porcelain Plaques c.1780

This fine piece is an Antique French Writing Table or Side Table with Porcelain Plaques and which dates  from around 1780. This late 18th century antique French kingwood writing or side table is beautifully decorated with lovely ormolu mounts and features a number of...

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Empire Style Bureau Plat Writing Table with Ormolu Mounts

We are pleased to be able to offer this grand Empire style bureau plat or writing table made from walnut and rosewood parquetry and embellished with beautiful ormolu mounts and plaques, dating from the last quarter of the 20th century. Dating from around the end of...

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A lovely French Vernis Martin & Parquetry Secretaire Chest

This is an antique French Vernis Martin rosewood and kingwood bombe shaped secretaire cabinet dating from around 1880. The fall front of this antique secretaire is decorated with a vignette of a courting couple set within an extravagant ormolu border. The front opens...

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Antique Writing Table Desk Dating From Around 1830

This is a very attractive Antique Gillows Writing Table or Desk, in birdseye maple, which our experts have dated to around 1830. It is always a pleasure to be able to offer such a fine Gillows writing table and although we have been unable to find a Gillows stamp on...

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SOLD – 6ft Flame Mahogany Lion’s Head Partner’s Desk

SORRY NOW SOLD! We are very proud to be able to offer you this flame mahogany Lion's Head Partners Desk in the Georgian Style which is both useful and impressive to look at. Partners desks are always popular and we see no reason why this one should be any different....

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Antique Victorian Sofa Table or Writing Table

Dating from around 1870 this is a lovely antique Victorian writing table, or sofa table, in Walnut. The first thing most people will notice about this fine table is the superb table top which features a beautifully finished surface of burr walnut with its...

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Gillows Style Writing Table or Desk in Burr Walnut

We are pleased to be able to offer you this attractive and functional Burr Walnut Writing Table or Desk which has been made in the desirable Gillows style. Representing superb value at £1,975, this writing table has been made by craftsmen using carefully selected burr...

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Antique French Pollard Oak Writing Table Desk c.1850

Representing great value at £3,250, this is a very attractive antique French Desk, which could be more accurately described as an ormolu mounted Pollard Oak desk and which dates from around 1850. The desk, or writing table, was made in Nice, southern France by a...

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SOLD Antique Biedermeier German Secretaire Chest c.1830

SOLD. This is a very striking antique German Biedermeier period flame mahogany secretaire abbatant dating from around 1830. The term "Biedermeier" is used to describe an era in Central Europe history during which arts appealed to common sensibilities in the historical...

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Antique Biedermeier Flame Mahogany Secretaire Chest c.1820

A genuine and rarely seen example of an Antique French Biedemeier Secretaire Chest which our experts have dated from around 1820. At almost two hundred years old this Secretaire Chest is offered for sale is excellent condition for just £1750. As you can see from the...

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Antique French Rosewood Secretaire Chest c.1860

As pretty as a picture  - this is an Antique French Rosewood Secretaire Chest that will catch the eye of all who look at it. As you can clearly see, this decorative piece has been skillfully crafted from fine quality rosewood and is adorned with eye-catching ormolu...

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SOLD Burr Walnut Partners Pedestal Desk Victorian Style

SOLD:Made from top quality and very attractive burr walnut, this is a fine example of a Victorian Style partners pedestal desk dating from the latter part of the twentieth century. The quality of the craftsmanship that has gone into the making of this partners desk is...

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Victorian Antique Davenport Desk c.1850

An unusual Victorian Antique Davenport Desk reputed to have been made for the great exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1851. This is a very stylish antique Davenport Desk which has been made with great skill and care from fine quality  burr walnut and being inset with...

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Antique Marquetry Bureau Plat Writing Table French c.1850

Dating from around 1850 this is a very attractive antique French Bureau Plat writing table featuring delicate and impressive decorations fashioned from a combination of Kingwood, Rosewood, Tulipwood and Purple Heart complemented by some of the finest Ormolu borders...

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