Stock No: 16937

A pretty Victorian Aesthetic movement gilded and ebonised writing desk or bonheur du Jour. The top with an ebonised balustrade of turned spindles above a pair of doors with hand painted panels, framed by gilt mouldings and Amboyna wood. The panels depict a pair of medieval loves exchanging love notes by dove, on an architectural Gothic background. Opening the doors reveals a delicate interior in birch and satin birch, with fretwork valencing and further fretwork to the front of the letter rack, over two rosewood draws with flush boxwood knobs. The draw to the base contains an adjustable, tooled leather writing slope and to the right, a pen holder and the original glass inkwell. All supported on slender ebonised, carved and gilded turned legs, with ceramic casters, separated by a stretcher and shelf.

English, circa 1880.

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