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Auction House:
Shapiro Auctioneers
Number of lots recorded:20
Lots with images:20
Prices available:20
Category:
Desks - Secretaires and Bureaux
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** Queen Anne figured walnut secretaire bookcase early 18th century, with cross and feather banding, the top with broken arch pediment and two shaped bevelled mirror panelled doors enclosing a fitted interior, the lower part with drop writing flap enclosing… ***
*** Chinoiserie lacca povera orange painted bureau cabinet, c. 1780, the pair of paneled doors enclosing shelves, above a fall front concealing an interior fitted with drawers, hidden column drawers and pigeon holes, the sliding writing surface set in dummy… ***
*** Louis XVI style French bureau, kingwood with armorial and floral marquetry inlay, marble top, three fitted drawers above leather lined pull out writing slide, height 132 cm, width 134 cm, depth 69 cm. Provenance: Ezra Norton Family Collection ***
*** Queen Anne walnut fall front bureau c. 1710 the fall front revealing a well fitted stepped interior, with cupboard and eight drawers, one with inkwells, above four graduated drawers, raised on bracket feet. Height 98 cm. Width 92 cm. Depth 52 cm.… ***
*** Louis XV style rosewood, marquetry and ormolu mounted bureau plat, the cartouche shape top with green leather writing surface, above a conforming frieze fitted with three drawers, writing slides to sides, on cabriole legs with ormolu knees, height 76 cm… ***
*** Anglo Indian campaign chest, the top with dentil frieze above a well fitted secretaire drawer, four short and one long deep drawer, on four carved bun feet, the front with brass handles and escutcheons, the sides with brass drop handles, padouk wood.… ***
*** Louis XVI style parquetry bureau de Dame, c.1910 with a pierced three quarter gilt metal gallery, leading to a shaped top with thumb moulded edge and a single long drawer flanked by four further short drawers, the lower part with leather inset writing… ***
*** Louis XV style serpentine walnut secretaire abattant, with marble top fall front enclosing pigeon holes and drawers above three long drawers all cross-banded and strung with applied scrolled metal handles and mounts, 128 x 75 x 43 cm ***
*** Georgian walnut veneer and cross banded bureau, blaise lined slope top with ten fitted and internal drawers, above two short drawers and two long drawers raised on bracket feet, height 107 cm, width 98 cm, depth 55 cm ***
*** 19th century Scandinavian mahogany secretaire a abbatant having a stepped top, leading to a foliate carved apron, and a central hinged panel door, enclosed a selection of short boxwood strung drawers and pigeon holes, and three graduated long drawers,… ***
*** George II mahogany bureau c. 1750 the fall front opens to reveal a fitted interior with pigeon holes and cupboard, above four long drawers, on bracket feet, height 94 cm, width 76 cm, depth 45 cm. Provenance: Windsor Antiques, Melbourne, July 1975.… ***
*** Louis XVI style mahogany and marquetry secretaire a Abattant, late 19th century, variegated rouge marble top above a fall front enclosing a fitted interior, with three drawers below, front and sides decorated with sprays of flowers, raised on tapered legs… ***
*** George III mahogany bureau, c. 1765, the fall front enclosing a fitted interior with pigeon holes, drawers, secret compartments and red leather inset writing surface, four long drawers below with original brass handles and escutcheons, on bracket feet,… ***
*** Early Georgian fall front desk, 18th century, fall front enclosing writing surface above a long drawer and a knee hole door, raised on bracket feet, height 95 cm width 71 cm depth 41 cm ***
*** French Chinoiserie red lacquer four front bureau with fitted drawers, height 139 cm. Provenance: Orlando Brown Collection, Mosman ***
*** Victorian mahogany Dickens desk, c. 1850, the galleried back flanked by two banks of drawers above a three section leather inset top, over a frieze fitted with three drawers, raised on two pedestals, each pedestal featuring three short drawers, height 107… ***
*** Louis XVI style secretaire, kingwood, fall front with floral inlay, ormolu mounts, three drawers, marble top on square tapered legs, height 115 cm, width 52 cm, depth 34.5 cm. Provenance: Ezra Norton Family Collection ***
*** Biedermeier mahogany secretaire à abattant, 19th century, the architectural pediment above a long drawer and a fall front enclosing an inlaid fitted interior and writing surface, with three drawers below, height 165 cm, width 100 cm, depth 51 cm.… ***
*** Art Deco oak fall front desk, c. 1930, the fall front opening to reveal a fitted interior with writing surface, above a pair of doors with chrome plated pulls, on carved ball feet, height 106 cm, width 76 cm, depth 48 cm. Provenance: Private Collection,… ***
*** Italian burr walnut bureau 19th century the fall front enclosing a fitted interior, above a bombe base with three long drawers, on bracket feet ***