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Period: 18th Century
French Bureau Plat Marquetry Leather Top Desk with Orig. Ormolu Mounts, C. 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
French bureau plat marquetry leather top three drawer desk with hearing bone inlays, three opposite side faux drawers, original floral ormolu mounts, brass escutcheons, brass knobs, ...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu, Brass
Antique English George III Chippendale Style Mahogany Library Desk
Located in Glasgow, GB
A George III mahogany freestanding library desk in the Chippendale style. Designed to be used in the centre of a room and with storage to front and back similar to a partners’ desk,...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Georgian mahogany artist
s or architect
s desk
Located in Castle Douglas, GB
18th century mahogany artist's or architect's desk
Unusual mahogany artist's or architect's desk. Draughtsmen, architects and amateur artists required suitable, specialist tables f...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Walnut reception desk with rich decorations on the sides and back, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique reception desk, probably created for a prestigious hotel, built in precious walnut wood with rich gold painted decorations on the sides...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
George II Red Walnut Bureau
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
For sale is a good quality George II red walnut bureau, with a hinged fall enclosing a well fitted interior of drawers and pigeon holes and secret compartments, with four drawers bel...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
English Chippendale Mahogany Carved Floral Desk With Bookcase. Circa 1770
Located in Charleston, SC
English Chippendale mahogany desk / bookcase on stand with flanking book matched doors, gadrooned molded edge, fitted interior pigeon holes o...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
George I Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular cornice over a single door with mirror, the desk section with fold down writing surface opening to a nicely fitted interior and sliding panel opening to a well, all over ...
Category
English George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Rare and Important Sheraton Painted Satinwood Cheveret
Located in Montreal, QC
A rare and important Sheraton period painted satinwood cheveret in original finish and with original painted floral swags and garlands. The superstructure with fitted book carrier; the stand with two short drawers above a secretaire drawer, fitted with a writing slide, with shaped under-tier and on square tapering legs.
This is a rather rare form, but to find it in satinwood, painted and in the original finish is very rare indeed. This little desk was made for personal correspondence; billets doux and was already old when Jane Austin...
Category
English Sheraton Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
18th Century Swedish Bombe Shaped Bureau Signed by Eric Holm
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
18th Century Swedish period Rococo bombe shaped bureau.
Signed by the renowned Stockholm furniture maker Eric Holm.
Fall front desk upends to work space and storage drawer and shelv...
Category
Swedish Rococo Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Ladies Desk
Located in Charleston, SC
Charming and rare 18th C. Italian painted small ladies desk having deep yellow, maroon and and gold/ochre scrolling foliate in chinoiserie motifs wit...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
$4,225 Sale Price
35% Off
George III Satinwood and Marquetry Harlequin Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
With a serpentine divided top with oval inlaid panel with hunting scene with hounds and hares with floral medallions at the corners , hinged outer sections fitted with a well and central section lifting and fitting into a recess , leather top of Tiffany blue. A button released the pop up desk...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Satinwood
English Satinwood and Patera Inlaid Knee Hole Desk. Circa 1780
Located in Charleston, SC
English satinwood and ebony string patera inlaid seven-drawer knee hole desk with original brasses, prospect door, and terminating on original bracket feet. Late 18th century.
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Austrian Neoclassic Parquetry Pedestal Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top over a long drawer flanked by small drawers over pedestals each with two drawers. Bracket feet. Finished all around in a design of inlay that gives a striped effect.
Category
Austrian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Louis XVI Ormolu-Mounted Mahogany Bureau à Cylindre by Louis Moreau
Located in London, GB
A FINE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU À CYLINDRE BY LOUIS MOREAU, CIRCA 1790.
With three frieze drawers below the veined marble top, the cylinder enclosing a pull-out writ...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Baroque Bureau-Desk, Northern Italy, Lombardy, circa 1720
Located in CH
Baroque Bureau Cabinet (Desk)
Northern Italy, Lombardy, circa 1720
Walnut burl and fruitwood veneer, inlaid with reserves and fillets; bronze mounts and knobs
This elegant Baroque b...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut, Burl
George III Mahogany Tambour Desk
Located in Essex, MA
Nice old piece very nicely polished and tuned up in good working order. Rectangular top with tambour roll top opening to expose a pull out writing surface with adjustable ratcheted c...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XVI Style Mahogany Architects Table with Side Cabinet, 20TH Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The unusual table with adjustable height stand and side cabinet with shelves for storage.
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Regency Mahogany Davenport Desk of Diminutive Size
Located in Essex, MA
Of unusual almost one half normal width with part brass gallery top with handle and hinged tooled green leather writing lid opening to a fitted interior over a case fitted with four ...
Category
English Regency Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
18th Century Baroque Secretaire, South German, 1750-1760
Located in Belmont, MA
Unique 18th century Baroque secretaire, South German, probably Lake of Constance region, circa 1750-1760.
Elaborate bombe shaped Baroque secretaire with beautiful walnut, elmwood an...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Rare Burr Walnut George II 18th Century Kneehole Desk, circa 1730-1740, England
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Rare Burr walnut George II 18th century kneehole desk / bachelor's chest, circa 1730-1740. England
The superb quarter veneered burr walnut top is bordered by a fine feather stringing, cross-banded and edged with cross-grain ovolo mouldings.
Six oak lined drawers bearing their original locks and handles and escutcheons surround the central burr walnut cupboard...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut, Burl
Period Early George III Mahogany Architects Work Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This fine period architects table was made in England, circa 1760 to 1770. Crafted from imported mahogany this was a costly and impressive form of furniture for a gentleman architect working in the country of a fashionable society interested in art, craft, engineering and aware of the burgeoning power of the Industrial revolution taking place throughout the world but very much so in England. Designed to expand, lift for standing work and to examine and hold large worksheets, the piece contains a full...
Category
English George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Large Antique George II Mahogany Desk c. Mid 18th Century
Located in Westfield, MA
This Large Antique George II Mahogany Desk, crafted in the mid-18th century, is an exceptional example of Georgian design, combining both form and function with timeless beauty. The ...
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Baroque Secretaire, Lake Constance Region
Located in Belmont, MA
18th century baroque secretaire, Lake Constance region. Two-drawer body on curved square feet, foldable desk, inside six drawers, a wide shelf and a sec...
Category
German Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
George I Bureau Desk Walnut Chest Drawers
Located in Potters Bar, GB
George I Walnut Bureau.
This Bureau Stands Upon Bracket Feet and Features an Arrangement of 2 Over 2 Oak Lined Drawers.
18th Century
The Drawers and the Fall Having Herringbone Inlays.
The Interior Having an Assortment of Drawers and Pigeonholes.
The Bureau Retails its Original Handles, Escutcheons and Loper Pulls.
The Bureau is of a Good Warm Antique Walnut Colour.
Category
George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Italian Baroque Inlaid Early 18th Century Walnut and Fruit Wood Desk-Commode
Located in Troy, NY
Early 18th Century Marquetry Desk-Commode of Italian Origin, having three drawers, the top one having a fall-front featuring a desk compartment fitted...
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut, Fruitwood
English Chippendale Period George II Red Walnut Kneehole Desk Dressing Table
Located in Glasgow, GB
A good Chippendale period mid 18th century red walnut kneehole writing desk dressing table of small proportions and dating to circa 1740-50. With a lift-up top featuring a fully fit...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
George II Oak Dressing Table or Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
George II oak desk or dressing table with a single drawer above three short drawers flanking an arched center kneehole with cabinet door, brass hardware, England, early 18th century.
Category
English George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
Bureau cylindre
Located in PARIS, FR
Bureau à cylindre en acajou et placage d'acajou moucheté toutes faces, filets d'ébène et ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré et de laiton, le dessus de marbre blanc associé en par...
Category
European Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
$83,074
Very Fine 18th Century George I Period Burr Walnut Bureau Bookcase
Located in Petworth,West Sussex, GB
A very fine George I period walnut and feather banded bureau bookcase, circa 1720, the moulded cornice above a pair of mirror panelled doors, ope...
Category
British George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mirror, Walnut, Burl
Small Tuscan walnut flap table from the 1700s
Located in Cesena, FC
Small Tuscan limelight from the 1700s
Small 1700s Tuscan walnut flap, panelled and filleted.
Measurements: L. cm 110 - D. cm 50 - H. cm 103
Contact us for further clarification or p...
Category
European Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Nutwood
C1830 Louis Philippe Mahogany Document Desk with Leather Faced Drawers
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
C1830 Louis Philippe Mahogany Document Desk with Leather Faced Drawers. Age appropriate wear, see detailed photos or message us with questions.
Desk Height: 28.5
Category
French Louis Philippe Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 18th Century Walnut Secretaire Kneehole Desk
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A walnut kneehole desk with quarter veneered top above an unusual fitted secretaire drawer. The kneehole with two banks of drawers all retaining the original brass handles.
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
Lady
s Dressing Table Kneehole Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A walnut kneehole of high quality on bracket feet with walnut English veneer. The drawers have a simple cross banding with a lip edge mounting.
Top has a Tobacco brown leather inser...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Lacquer Bureau on Stand and Toilet Glass Dressing Table
Located in London, by appointment only
A Chinese export lacquer bureau on stand decorated with an unusual polychrome flower design
This Chinese lacquer bureau on stand was made in ...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Lacquer
18th Century Captains Desk
Located in San Francisco, CA
A George III period mahogany kneehole captains desk. Rare example of 18th century campaign furniture. Rich, dense Cuban mahogany inlaid with ivor...
Category
George III Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
18th Century Brazilian Desk Chest of Drawers from Sabará Minas Gerais
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
This rare and monumental desk / chest of drawers, hails from the 18th century, a period marked by the flourishing of the Brazilian Baroque in the his...
Category
Brazilian Other Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
Cathedra Desk with Beautiful Original Lacquering
Located in Cesena, FC
Original lacquered cathedra desk, of rare beauty.
Period: mid 1700s
Originally from the marche region
It has in the front 2 doors as if it were a sideboard
Measures: cm 152x...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood
George III Period Mahogany Fitted Desk Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
An 18th century mahogany desk or sometimes called architects desk, with fitted top drawer containing a baize lined wiring surface below which is a fitted section contains alphabet inlaid letter boxes The double top drawer slides out on hidden rollers and the baize section then slides back.
Original swan neck brass handles and fine flame mahogany. finished with dummy drawers to the back making this a free standing desk.
A model is in the Gillow design...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Desk or Jam Maker in Walnut
Located in Marseille, FR
Small rustic piece of furniture that can serve as a desk or jam maker from the 18th century in walnut, 87 cm high, 66 cm wide and 46 cm deep. some small restorations to be planned
...
Category
Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Italian Venetian 18th Century Lady
s Desk, Circa 1770
Located in CH
Italian Venetian Lady’s Desk
Neoclassical, Circa 1770
An Italian Neoclassical Venetian lady’s desk, dating to around 1770, elegantly finished on all four sides for placement at the ...
Category
Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Wood
Hogan English Bench-Made Chippendale Style Mahogany Writing Table
Located in North Salem, NY
Fine Wood & Hogan English bench-made mahogany Chippendale style three drawer writing table with tooled leather shaped top and pull out slides on each end. Old World Hand Colored Oliv...
Category
English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Brass
$10,590 Sale Price
25% Off
Large Gilded Bronze Clock with Louis XIV Figure, 18th Century
By France"
Located in Madrid, ES
Large gilded bronze clock with Louis XIV figure.
Mechanism working with a pendulum and original key
End 18th century beginning 19th century...
Category
French Louis XIV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Scriban Commode with Cylinder of Louis XV Period in Marquetry
Located in Marseille, FR
18th century commode scriban cylinder Louis XV period inlaid. Richly curved. 4 drawers. Many species of fruitwood, rich register of gilded bronze. Inne...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Tuscan 18th century Walnut and Rosewood desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A handsome and high quality Tuscan 18th century Walnut and Rosewood desk. This wonderful desk is raised on tapered Walnut legs below the scalloped apron on all sides. To each side ar...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Rosewood, Walnut
Venetian Painted Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A rare, Venetian, serpentine painted writing desk/coiffure table. Six drawers with 4 original keys. Hand painted foliate swags decorate the sides which meet relief profiles
Category
Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Wood, Paint
$29,800
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Rosewood And Bronze Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A most elegant French 18th century Louis XV period Rosewood and bronze desk. The desk is raised by four elegant tapered cabriole legs with fine scrolled acanthus leaf designed feet a...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Bronze
George I Bureau Desk Walnut Chest Drawers
Located in Potters Bar, GB
George I Walnut Bureau.
This Bureau Stands Upon Bracket Feet and Features an Arrangement of 2 Over 2 Oak Lined Drawers.
18th Century
The Drawers and the Fall Having Herringbone Inlay...
Category
George I Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Walnut
Georgian Mahogany Pedestal Desk, 18th Century
Located in Southall, GB
Georgian Mahogany pedestal desk
An 18th century Georgian mahogany pedestal desk.
The desk has a gold tooled black leather writing...
Category
English Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
French 18th Century Louis XV Period Fruitwood and Ormolu Library Table/Desk
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A striking and large-scale French 18th century Louis XV period ebonized fruitwood and ormolu library table/desk. The desk is raised by elegant cabriole ...
Category
French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
French 18th Century Louis XV Period French Desk in Kingwood and Tulipwood
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely high quality French 18th century Louis XV period kingwood, tulipwood and ormolu desk, signed ‘Bernard Ebeniste’. This most elegant desk is raised by slender cabriole leg...
Category
French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Ormolu
Louis XVI Oak Secretair
Located in Vista, CA
Stunning tall oak secretair on top, beautifully carved drawers resting on paw feet.
Category
European Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Oak
$15,995
George II Mahogany Pedestal Partner’s Desk
Located in London, GB
A George II Mahogany Pedestal Partner’s Desk
Category
George II Antique 18th Century Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Price Upon Request
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