Lot 410

A late 19th century satinwood writing desk

Auction: 21 March 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£2,988
Description
the glazed top of breakfront outline with pierced brass gallery and faux dentil cornice enclosing a glass shelf and mirrored interior, the full width frieze drawer ejecting a cylinder fall enclosing pen trays and short drawers and releasing a foldout tooled leather writing slope, each inlaid with a fan patera and a trophy (repectively) flanked by penwork arabesques, on square tapering legs united by an inswept undershelf on spade feet, the whole decorated with ebony lines
