Regency Rosewood Slide Top Davenport Desk

A super Regency rosewood Davenport dating to c.1820 and featuring a rare brass grille front flanked by acanthus carved corbels and fluted pilasters. The sliding top with a pierced brass gallery and pen drawer above a black and gilt tooled leather inset slide and four graduated drawers with another slide and four dummy drawers to the opposing side, with original turned knobs, brass keyhole liners and locks and raised on reeded and turned legs with brass cup castors. The writing slope with the original inset blind tooled burgundy leather lifting to reveal a mahogany lined interior fitted with two rosewood fronted short drawers above two faux drawers with box wood surrounds and turned knob handles. This fine quality example is likely to have been made by Gillows of Lancaster who are credited with the producing the design for a Captain Davenport, these earlier examples are therefore often considered to be campaign or military pieces of furniture due to the compact portable size.

This example is in good condition having been sympathetically cleaned and polished using traditional methods, the leathers are worn but still useable and the fabric backing is a replacement. One piece of brass grill missing from the top right and corner of veneer lost from the right slide. Feint ring marks to the back and an old shrinkage line to the back filled & polished. With the slope pulled forward comfortable to work at with the slides providing useful additional space.

Width - 19.75in (50cm)

Depth - 21.25in (54cm)

Height - 35in (89cm)

Writing slope - 19.75in wide x 15.5in deep (50cm x 39.5cm)

Top shelf area - 18.5in wide x 5.25in deep (47cm x 13cm)

Slides - 9.5in wide x 17in deep (24cm x 43cm)

Ref: 0573

When buying it is important appreciate antiques have long histories of daily use and as such, over time they gain minor scratches, marks, knocks, shrinkage splits, signs of old woodworm, lifts and losses to veneer, which combine with care and years of polishing to create an individual character and patina. We describe the main flaws and those that fall outside of this bracket but cannot describe each marks separately and therefore suggest you do take the time to request extra photos. We do offer a 14 day money back guarantee if you are unhappy with your purchase but cannot refund the return shipping cost. If you are not sure please do not buy without clarifying or take the view that the only way to have it as near to new as possible is to have it fully and comprehensively restored.

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