£2,750
Hints on Household Taste : Paul Reeves | 700
Auction: 28 June 2022 at 11:00 BST
oak, with tooled leather writing surface and brass fittings
Literature: Cooper, J., Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, p. 106, pl. 229 where a desk with comparable structural form is illustrated.
Note: Alfred Waterhouse is perhaps best remembered as the architect of the Natural History Museum in London. The furniture he conceived was for his own buildings. He designed all the furniture for the Earl of Selborne’s Blackmoor House in Hampshire and this current desk is similar in form and proportions to one created for the Earl.