A Wonderful Painted Pine Mid-19thC Art-School Clerk’s Desk c.1860-70

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A Wonderful Painted Pine Mid-19thC Art-School Clerk’s Desk c.1860-70Origin: English Period: Mid Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1860 70 Width: 24. 25 Height: 40. 75 Depth: 19 (all at top) The beautifully proportioned painted pine clerks desk hailing from mid Victorian England, the whole having elegant tapering slender legs to a hinged sloping writing surface opening to reveal a partitioned interior, being untouched from its heavy use throughout the decades, the carcass with an exceptional glass like patina to

possibly cut down from a larger composition

With its depiction of the vacuous lifestyle of the rich

The Asylum is a quadrangular building of stone construction

In England it is normally known as a 'pier glass'

the mahogany frame standing on very finely carved and turned baluster shaped octagonal front legs with rear sabre legs having the original brass castors surviving from early nineteenth century England

which are now sought after antiques that are widely copied

pagodas and landscapes and later brass drop ring handles

Height: 37 inches

curved heels (the origin of modern "louis heels") and were made of fabric or leather

In good original condition the mask only suffers from a handful of chips

large integral Regency period iron shears with iron mounts

When tightening and re-upholstering the chair there were some remnants of French period newspaper discovered to the innards though we don’t believe the chair is French

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