writing desks escritoires & bureaus
writing desks escritoires bureaus
OAK PEDESTAL DESK
Oak pedestal desk of large proportions. Circa 1900. W60". £975
18th century bureau bookcase
George II mahogany bureau bookcase of small proportions having a well fitted interior with candle shelvs over two over three drawers. W37". D20". H68". Circa 1730. £2250
19th century partners desk
19th century mahogany partners desk of large proportions , having drawers on one side and drawers and cupboards on the other. W60". D38". H30.5". £2250
Queen Anne oak bureau of small proportion with a fine fitted interior with a well and secret drawers over two large drawers and bun feet. Circa 1710. W33". D21". H42". SOLD
William & Mary bureau on stand
William & Mary walnut and feather banded bureau on stand of small proportions with a fitted interior with secret drawers over a shaped apron and turned cup and cover legs with flat wavey stretchers. Circa 1690. W27.5". D18.5". H33". £6750
William & Mary escritoire
William & Mary walnut and feather banded escritoire with a fitted interior over a fall with two over two drawers below. Circa 1690. W42". D18". H63". £8750 ON HOLD
Sheraton period cylinder bureau
George III sheraton Satinwood and mahogany cylinder bureau of small proportions and having a well fitted interior. Retaining its original brasses and fittings. Circa 1790. W23.5". D16.5". H36.5". £5750
EARLY 18TH CENTURY BUREAU
Queen Anne oak bureau of small proportions with a well fitted interior over two over two drawers and original bun feet. Circa 1710. W33". D20". H39.5". £2250
Early 18th century oak court cupboard of rich colour with spiral twist columns and a scroll work frieze intialled MB and dated 1718. W65.5". D24.52. H61". SOLD
George I walnut and feather banded knee hole desk of small proportions and fine colour. Circa 1720. W30". D20.5". H31". SOLD
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Writing Furniture
Various types of tables, often of centre table type served as writing furniture. But by the later part of the 17th century the bureau came into fashion, at first with a falling flap to write on and having a fitted inerior with drawers and pigeon holes and being stood on a stand. Soon the stand was replaced by a bank of drawers…the bureau we know today. For the larger houses the escritoire was a large piece of furniture with again a falling flap, but with a bank of drawers behind, and also being raised on a bank of drawers.
The very late 17th and early 18th century century saw the arrival of the knee hole desk…. origionally thought to be a bedroom piece for dressing… This piece of furniture having a flat top for writing on and two banks of drawers either side of an aperture for the sitter. As with much of the fashionable furniture of the period walnut and oak were the main woods used.
- Bureaus
- Escritoires
- Knee hole desks