william-and-mary-inlaid-walnut-slant-front-desk
Lot 2289
William and Mary Inlaid Walnut Slant Front Desk
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
18th century, walnut veneer, oak secondary, top with herringbone banded inlay, lipped slant lid with repeating inlay with loper supports opens to reveal a well fitted interior with a green leather writing surface, central prospect door flanked by small drawers and pigeon holes over a sliding storage surface, the case with two over two graduated inlaid drawers on a shaped bracket foot base.

37 x 30 x 18 in.

Purchased from Churchill Galleries, Charlotte, North Carolina in 1995, for $11,500.

Some old staining to the top; slant lid with crack/repair to top right corner; later green leather (in good condition); tightness to sliding interior surface; drawers reworked with later interior silk lining (but in good usable condition); later bracket foot base.