Which timbers turn up most in this category?

Satinwood and pine, in near-equal numbers across the sixty-eight listings. Satinwood carries the hand-painted floral and neoclassical work; pine carries the country and clerks' desks described as being in original paint. Mahogany appears in the French cylinder bureaux, and one French desk is carved oak.

What is a Carlton House desk?

A writing desk with a D-shaped tier of small drawers curving round the back and sides of the top, leaving the writing area open in the middle. Six turn up in the archive, always in satinwood and always painted, clustered around 1900. They sit at the top of the range.

How old are painted desks usually?

The dated field runs from 1860 to 1950, and twenty-eight of the listings carry a clean year. The earliest is a single desk of circa 1860; the latest is a French kneehole desk dated 1950. Much of the profile is looser than that. "19th Century" is the largest single label, with Victorian, Edwardian, Georgian and Regency used as periods rather than years. Where decades are given they gather on the 1880s, 1890s and 1900s.

Are painted desks English or French?

England leads as a stated origin with fifteen titles, ahead of France with twelve. Sweden appears exactly once, the rarest origin in the archive. The French group covers kneehole desks, a bureau plat, Louis XV style pieces and mahogany cylinder bureaux.

Do the desks name a maker?

No. Across all sixty-eight listings no cabinetmaker, decorator or retailer is named, so the descriptions rest on form, timber and the painted decoration instead. That makes the wording of a title carry the weight: satinwood or pine, kneehole or Carlton House, floral or chinoiserie.

What unusual painted desks have appeared?

A painted host stand catalogued among the desks, a clerks' desk sold with its matching stool, and a parcel-gilt Victorian desk. Also a Georgian desk painted later in a bamboo design, and a French Louis XV style cylinder escritoire. About nine painted desks come to market on Sellingantiques in a year, listed by thirty different dealers.

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A desk whose decoration is paint rather than veneer or polish, whether a plain softwood carcass in its working colour or a pale hardwood desk given hand-painted ornament as its finish.

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Rare Hand-decorated Free-standing 19th Century Satinwood Knee-hole Desk

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Painted Carved Oak French Desk

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Late Victorian Painted Satinwood Desk

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