A French Louis-Philippe Period Black Painted Clerk’s Desk c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden soft greens and blues

soft greens and blues

can stand unaided

The company was in business from the 1880s until it closed in 1933

almost floating in space

A French Louis-Philippe Period Black Painted Clerk’s Desk c.1850 sub-Architectural & Garden soft greens and bluesOrigin: French Period: Louis Philippe Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1850 Height: 32. 75 Width: 35. 25 Depth: 19. 5 (all at extremities) The well proportioned black painted pine clerks desk of counter form, the whole having elegant scrolled legs to a hinged sloping writing surface with lozenge escutcheon opening to reveal a vacant interior, being untouched from its heavy use throughout the decades, the carcass with an exceptional bitumen encrusted