Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 21

Antique Early 19th Century Dutch Colonial Calamander Desk

$38,500
£29,217.78
€33,665.11
CA$54,394.37
A$58,282.69
CHF 31,264.57
MX$690,366.60
NOK 394,385.19
SEK 360,801.45
DKK 251,482.53

About the Item

Rare and important early 19th Century desk handcrafted in calamander wood featuring two organizers on the banded top with brass supports, nine banded drawers with English dovetailing and exceptional brass hardware, a discreet kneehole cabinet, and classic turned feet on brass casters. This desk was likely made in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. A remarkable Dutch Colonial piece with English influence. Kneehole: H: 24.5 W: 19 D: 7
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 44 in (111.76 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)Depth: 24 in (60.96 cm)
  • Style:
    Napoleon III (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
    Sri Lanka
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1820
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Palm Beach, FL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 77481stDibs: LU860348365982

More From This Seller

View All
Antique French Neo Classic Art Deco Writing Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive French writing desk having a dramatic mixed wood top crafted with a burled walnut center crossbanded in zebra wood with brass borders on a mahogany case having five drawe...
Category

Early 20th Century French Neoclassical Desks

Materials

Brass

Antique English Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Handsome 19th century English partners desk crafted in mahogany in three-piece construction, featuring the original tooled leather top, African Bubinga wood drawer and door fronts, b...
Category

Antique 19th Century English Victorian Desks

Materials

Leather, Mahogany

British Colonial Style Demi-Lune Leather Top Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
British colonial style desk crafted in mahogany in a demilune form with a tooled tan leather top, four drawers and featuring bold turned an...
Category

Late 20th Century American British Colonial Desks

Materials

Brass

Antique French Louis XVI Style Leather Top Partners Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Impressive 19th century French partners desk with a tooled red leather top over a case crafted in mahogany with four drawers on either side decora...
Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Desks

Materials

Brass

Antique English Flip Top Campaign Desk on Stand
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Remarkable rare 19th Century gentleman's traveling desk handcrafted in mahogany with geometric inlays, featuring a flip top compartment with tooled leather writing surfaces over stor...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century English William IV Desks

Materials

Brass

Antique English British Colonial Leather Top Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Handsome 19th century English desk handcrafted in mahogany, in three piece construction, with brass campaign hardware, having a tooled black leather top with Greek key motif on a cas...
Category

Antique 19th Century English British Colonial Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Mahogany

You May Also Like

French Desks = Antique Empire Knee Hole Bureau Desk, 1890
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Elegant French Empire knee hole desk we date to circa 1890 Wonderful French desk with brass channelled inlay Such a good look to this piece, refined and very stylish from all angles Easy to move as on castors, great for a home office set...
Category

Antique 1890s Desks

Materials

Wood

19th Century Writing Desk
Located in London, Park Royal
French, Napoleon III period, writing desk. Handmade in ebonized wood and cased with brass, ormolu.The top is covered with bevelled glass.
Category

Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Desks

Materials

Bronze

Early 19th Century French Empire Desk
Located in Nashville, TN
Mahogany veneered French Empire desk. Leather insert top. Brass hardware on column legs and bun feet. Very unique and good quality period French des...
Category

Antique 1810s French Empire Desks

Materials

Mahogany

Neoclassical Roll-Top Secretary Desk, France, Late 18th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Refined neoclassical roll-top secrétaire standing on fluted square tapering legs with matching pilaster strips. The lower section features three drawers, topped by a mirrored two-doo...
Category

Antique Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Secretaires

Materials

Brass

Edwardian Mahogany Carlton House Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality Edwardian mahogany Carlton House desk, having an inset leather writing surface, above an arrangement of seven drawers, each with brass handles, standing on...
Category

Early 20th Century Desks

Materials

Mahogany

19th Century English Chippendale Style Pedestal Desk
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality 19th century Chippendale style pedestal desk, having a brown leather insert, above three drawers in the top. The top fits onto two pedestals, each with thr...
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century English Chippendale Desks

Materials

Mahogany