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Period: 18th Century
18th Century Country Side Writing Table
Located in Madrid, ES
A nice French country writing table, Louis XVI period, in solid oak, with a long drawer and drawer handle in bronze, the legs finished in sabot.
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

Table, 18th Century, Italian, Baroque, Walnut, Narrow, One Piece Top
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare, narrow, Italian, baroque, walnut, cabinet or sidetable. This table has unusual, narrow proportions and was probably originally conceived as a stand for a table cabinet or ...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

French 18th Century Large Louis XVI Marquetry Desk or Bureau à Cylindre
By Jean Kisling
Located in Berlin, DE
French 18th century large Louis XVI marquetry desk or bureau à Cylindre An exceptional marquetry secrétaire in the form of a bureau with a cylinder front and on a stand with four ...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

French Louis XVI Mahogany Writing Desk Tric-Trac Game Table circa 1785
Located in Shippensburg, PA
A VERY FINE FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY TABLE Á TRIC-TRAC Paris, circa 1785 29 3/8" H x 22 3/4" D x 45 1/2" W; 23 3/8" knee clearance A fine table à tric-trac crafted in mahogan...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

Antique Correspondence Table, English, Lowboy, Writing Desk, Georgian, C.1780
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique correspondence table. An English, mahogany lowboy or writing desk, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1780. A charmingly original personal desk with excellent co...
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British Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Antique French Louis XVI Marble Gold gilded Salon Ladies Writing Table 1800
Located in Doha, QA
This incredibly intricate and elegant Louis XVI French ladies writing desk table is originated from France ca late 18th-beginning of the 19t...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Marble, Gold

18th C. French Carved-Wood Table with Leather Writing Pad Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French carved-wood desk with leather writing pad top from the 18th century. This antique table from France features a rectangular-shaped top with...
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French Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Leather, Wood

Spanish 18th Century Carved Walnut Table with Original Iron Pulls and Lyre Legs
Located in London, Charterhouse Square
A Spanish 18th century walnut table with decorative original carved frieze with double drawers, original iron pulls and beautiful lyre legs.
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Spanish Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Regence Ebonized And Ormolu Mounted Bureau Plat
Located in Essex, MA
With a rectangular top with inset black tooled leather surrounded by a brass inlaid ebonized border with brass edge. The frieze with three drawers with cast bronze handles and three ...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

French 18th Century Louis XV Bureau Plat, Writing Desk
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An imposing Louis XV ebonized writing table with finely chased gilt bronze mounts. The stepped moulded rectangular top inset with the original gilt-tooled leather above three frieze drawers with elaborate ormolu handles and escutcheons, the reverse conformingly organized with three simulated drawers, allowing this bureau plat to be freestanding, the cabriole legs with sabot feet headed by female masks. The iconic Coco chancel lived with a Rococo writing desk...
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French Rococo Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

An Important George III Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This very fine mahogany writing table made in England in the French taste would have been for only the most current and fashionable people of the time. The table has a serpentine top...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Ebony, Mahogany

MID-18th CENTURY LOUIS XV VENEERED DESK
Located in Firenze, FI
Refined walnut and other woods veneered desk, embellished with geometric inlays on the top made with fruitwood fillets. The desk is distinguished by its slightly curved legs, typical...
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Italian Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

George III Period Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Montreal, QC
George III Period Mahogany Desk two drawer resting on on square tapered legs castors and the top inset with gold-tooled red leather. England: circa 1790
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Antique Desk in Walnut
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
We present this Italian walnut desk dating back to the late 18th century, during the Louis XVI period. Featuring simple lines and a lack of excessive ornamentation, the legs are lin...
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Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Fine George III Mahogany Reading Stand and Table
Located in New York, NY
The rectangular tilt-top of finely figured timber with removable reading ledge; raised on a turn columnar support and three downswept cabriole legs terminating in pad-form feet. P...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Georgian Mahogany Architects Table
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
A 18th century architects table with a single drawer which opens to reveal a several compartments. The front of the table is decorated wi...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Console Table, XVIII Century, France
Located in Girona, Spain
Console table, Made with cherry wood. Lacquered in black. Central drawer, with brass handle. Carved hoof legs. Very decorative. XVIII Century, Fra...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Cherry, Lacquer

George III Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Essex, MA
Rectangular top with all new olive tooled leather and central hinged rest, over a pair of drawers over two small drawers, raised on square tapered legs with spade feet. The back is p...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Scottish Library Table with Barley Twist Legs
Located in Hudson, NY
Beautiful all-over patina and hand carvings on the apron.
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Scottish Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

18th Century Louis XVI Cylinder Top Secretaire
Located in Belmont, MA
18th century Louis XVI Cylinder Top Secretaire, Paris 1780. The secretaire stands out for its elaborate kingwood and satinwood marquetry. The inside is embellished with several dra...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Kingwood

18th century Louis XVI Writing Desk, cherry veneer, South Germany
Located in Belmont, MA
Rare Louis XVI writing desk, South German 1780, exquisite cherry and plum wood veneer on front back, sides and top. The writing top is framed by...
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German Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Cherry

18th Century French Louis XIII Style Barley Twist Desk with Green Leather Top
Located in Birmingham, AL
A fine 18th century carved French Louis XIII style bureau plat or desk handcrafted of solid oak by skilled Breton artisans, circa 1730s. The rectangular top with a gadrooned beveled ...
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French Louis XIII Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Oak

18th Century Baroque Table
Located in Belmont, MA
Unique baroque table made around 1750 in South Germany. Exquisite marquetry in cherrywood, kingwood, walnut and elm. The marquetry depicts presentations of roman weapons and armor...
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German Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Wood

18th Century Harewood Dressing Table
By Mayhew Ince
Located in London, GB
A fine and rare late 18th century harewood dressing table, after designs by Mayhew and Ince, boxwood and ebony strung throughout, having crossbanded mitred top with pen work leaf bor...
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Great Britain (UK) Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Satinwood, Boxwood, Ebony, Padouk, Harewood

18th Century Spanish Louis XIII Carved Walnut Writing Table Desk with Drawers
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in Spain circa 1760, this impressive antique writing table showcases the strength and refined craftsmanship characteristic of the Louis XIII period. The rectangular table sta...
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Spanish Louis XIII Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

George III English Mahogany Writing Table
Located in Staffordshire, GB
circa 1780 George III English Mahogany Writing Table sku 2155 W71 x D47.5 x H74.5 cm Weight 14Kg
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Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Louis XV Leather Top Cocobola Wood Writing Desk
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare and remarkable Louis XV style ladies writing desk handcrafted in exotic cocobola wood with a leather top on a one drawer case over elegant cabriole legs with ormolu front feet.
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Cocobolo

Fine Antique American Chippendale Slant Front Desk
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A beautifully crafted late 18th Century Slant Front Desk with dovetailed top and drawers, fine graining, great color and solid traditiona...
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American Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Brass

Rare 18th Century Mahogany Bureau Cabinet on Stand
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A rare example of an 18th century mahogany bureau bookcase, the whole with finely carved mouldings and a swan neck pediment above the two doors. Good flame mahogany to the doors, fal...
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Irish Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Antique Italian Money-Changers Desk with Hidden Storage
Located in London, GB
An 17-18th century antique desk. Likely Italian, but sourced in France. Solid oak with a marble inset top. An exceptional table with crafty hidden sliding storage, accessed by a thick high quality decorative key, which is matched by the internal lock. Once unlocked the top can be slid back to reveal the hidden storage...
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European Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Oak

18th Century Painted Lamp Table
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
18th C English painted oak lamp table on cabriole legs. 1780. Reference: 7727 Dimensions 34 inches (86 cms) Wide 20 inches (51 cms) Deep 30.5 inches (77 cms) High
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Oak

Italian, Tuscany, Neoclassic Walnut Metamorphic Writing Desk, ca. 1780
Located in Atlanta, GA
having a hinged rectangular top opening to reveal a number of drawers and storage wells, some internal and secret, with a flip down front allowing ease of writing, raised on carved c...
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Italian Neoclassical Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Spanish Baroque 18th Century Lyre Leg Wooden Trestle Table with Iron Stretcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Spanish baroque table with decorative forged-iron stretcher from the 18th century. This antique table from Spain features a rectangular-shaped top, which is raised upon a pair of fluidly-carved, lyre-shaped trestle styled legs at either end. The pair of trestles...
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Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Iron

Louis XVI writing desk with pull-out surface, featuring an inlaid compass rose
Located in Cesena, FC
Elegant Louis XVI writing desk with pull-out writing surface, inlaid on the top with a compass rose. Elegant writing desk with pull-out writing surface, inlaid on the top with a com...
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Italian Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Leather, Maple

Robert Gillows II 1790 Writing Library Hardwood Chest of Drawers Leather Slope
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this very rare circa 1790 Georgian writing Library chest of drawers with desk secretaire by Gillows of Lancaster and L...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Leather, Hardwood

18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat
Located in Berlin, DE
18th Century French Louis XV Transition Marquetry Gilt Bronze Desk Bureau Plat An 18th century gilt-bronze mounted double-face desk or bureau plat with herring-bone marquetry. The k...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Bronze

18th Century Spanish Baroque Trestle Table Desk, Two Drawers, Rustic Wood, Solid
Located in Madrid, ES
A beautifully conserved Spanish writing table with mixtilinear “pata de lira” (lyre-shaped legs) displaying zig-zagging curves and undulations, in the Baroque ...
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Spanish Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Wood

Spanish Charles IV Walnut Marquetry Writing Desk Side Table c. 1790
Located in London, GB
A fine Charles IV walnut writing desk/side table with decorative inlaid marquetry work in blonde wood and ebony. Featuring forged iron hardware to the single large drawer, with worki...
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Spanish Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Brass

Cabaret Table In Cuban Mahogany, Louis XVI Period
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb Louis XVI period cabaret table in mahogany rare table offering numerous functions. It can serve as a writing table with its beautiful tobacco-colored leather and two pull-out ...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

18thc Walnut Tavern Table with Drawers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 18thc tavern table is made from Walnut and with Queen Ann legs and pad feet. This table has wood pegs and dovetailed drawers. The table has a fine patina and condition.
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American Adirondack Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Rare 1794 George III Gillows of Lancaster Double Sided Postmasters Sorting Desk
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning and exceptionally rare 1794 George III Gillows Lancaster twin pedestal double sided postmasters desk i...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

18th C. Walnut Table / Desk with Twisted Legs
Located in East Hampton, NY
Wonderful walnut table with turned legs and a single drawer.... a great night stand for a King bed.
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Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Italian, Bologna, LXIV Period Shaped Walnut Inlaid 2-Drawer Table, ca. 1715
Located in Atlanta, GA
Having a rectangular top with notched corners and line inlay above a conforming case housing two drawers, raised on turned and block legs with lozenge form carvings near the feet
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Italian Louis XIV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

18th Century Tyrolean Farmhouse Dining/ Kitchen Table in Fruitwood from Austria
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
An exceptionally beautiful farm house table from the Tyrolean region of Austria in fruitwood with the rich patina of age acquired from its 250 year history! A multipurpose table, it would have served as a dining table as well as a table used in the preparation of food. Utensils and bread would have been stored in its deep and long drawers, which are decorated with small etched field flowers on the fronts. The box stretcher would have provided a footrest in addition to rendering the table stronger. Offers pegged construction, dovetailed drawers and original wooden pulls. This Alpine table...
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Austrian Country Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Fruitwood

18th Century, French Wood Centre Desk
Located in IT
18th century, French wood centre desk Measurements: cm W 95 x D 63,5 x H 71,5 (maximum leg H 57,5) The elegant centre desk was built in northern France...
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French Louis XVI Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Wood, Satinwood

18th Century Louis XV Wood French Writing Table
Located in IT
The very unusual and particular center desk, called also bureau plat, was made in France, at Paris, in the 18th century, Louis XV period. It has a refined veneer in wood and a slidin...
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French Louis XV Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Wood

Swedish Gustavian Writing Desk, Late 18th Century, Late 1700s
Located in New York, NY
A Swedish late Gustavian writing desk, late 18th century in excellent antique condition. Key included. Restored with additions. Slight damages, wear and repairs due to age and as sh...
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Scandinavian Gustavian Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Brass

English Period 18th Century Queen Anne Walnut Lowboy
Located in Vero Beach, FL
English Period 18th century Queen Anne walnut lowboy. Refined walnut Lowboy with elegant scalloped apron from the Queen Anne period, about ...
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English Queen Anne Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Italy 18th Century Baroque Walnut Organic Shape Table Desk
Located in Brescia, IT
This walnut rectangular Tuscany table, has been hand made in Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) in 1760 circa. Its elegant shape, with the black border, makes this ...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

George III Mahogany and Red Leather Topped Writing Table
Located in London, GB
A George III Mahogany and Red Leather Topped Writing Table With adjustable ratcheting writing slope, three front drawers and brass handles, on straight mahogany legs. English, c.1760...
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George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

A rare mid 18th Century Chinese export lacquer bureau on stand circa 1750
Located in Reepham, GB
A Chinese export lacquer bureau on stand with toilet glass, decorated with an unusual polychrome flower design. Made in China circa 1750, the decor...
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Chinese Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Lacquer

A George III Mahogany and Red Leather Topped Writing Table
Located in London, GB
With adjustable ratcheting writing slope, three front drawers and brass handles, on straight mahogany legs. English, c.1760
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Brass

Chinese Export Campaign Secretary
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fine Chinese export Campaign or travel secretary the top with foliate carved backsplash over lifting lid, the fall front with molded raised panel door...
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Chinese Campaign Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Hardwood

Dressing Chest
Located in Tyrone, Northern Ireland
An 18th century mahogany dressing chest with bookcase and writing surface, designed by Thomas Chippendale. An attractive, practical and compact piece of...
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English Chippendale Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

Mahogany Kneehole Desk
Located in Folkestone, GB
A good quality George III period mahogany kneehole desk with moulded edge top above a long drawer and arrangement of three graduated small drawe...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Mahogany

18th Century George III Mahogany Leather-topped Partner’s Desk
Located in Solebury, PA
A distinguished 18th-century George III mahogany partner’s desk, characterized by its rectangular top adorned with a tooled red leather writing surface, is complemented by two doveta...
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English George III Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Leather, Mahogany

18th century Spanish Table
Located in MILL, NL
Spanish table. Dating from the 18th century. Solid walnut. Tabletop made from a single plank. Sturdy and solid. Beautiful colour and patina. No woodworm activity. Dimensions: 148L ...
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Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Walnut

Antique Irish Desk in White Oak Unrestored. Structurally Solid Original Finish
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Antique Country Irish White Oak Desk or Writing Table Made in the late 1700's and still appears to be unrestored and to our eyes, that is a very good thing. Look at the colour of the...
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Irish Country Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Oak

Continental 18th Century Bombay Slant Front Desk for Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An 18th century Bombay form slant front desk that opens to reveal an inlaid central door with working key that reveals a compartment with a small drawer. Flanked by two "secret" comp...
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European Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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Wood

Antique Quality Mahogany Floral Marquetry Inlaid Bombe Shaped Burea
Located in Suffolk, GB
Antique 18th century quality mahogany floral marquetry inlaid bombe shaped bureau having a quality floral marquetry fall opening to reveal a fitted interior consisting of drawers, pigeon holes, door and a well above three bombe shaped floral marquetry oak...
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English Antique 18th Century Desks and Writing Tables

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