Live Auction 5347Christie's Interiors- Style & Spirit
A WALNUT AND SEAWEED MARQUETRY DESK
Lot 28

A WALNUT AND SEAWEED MARQUETRY DESK

OF WILLIAM AND MARY STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed26 February 2008

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GBP 2,000

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A WALNUT AND SEAWEED MARQUETRY DESK
OF WILLIAM AND MARY STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Decorated throughout with inlaid cartouche panels, the superstructure with an arrangment of drawers, pigeon holes and cupboards above a hinged writing surface and three frieze drawers on spiral turned legs joined by stretchers and with turned feet
37in. (94cm.) high; 47½in. (121cm.) wide; 22in. (56cm.) deep

Captain O Shimwell, Gawsworth Hall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, and sold Turner & Son, 28/29 January, 1936, lot 230, as a 'Magnificent antique Walnut (Queen Anne) Bureau', (£21.10s).
James Wheeldon, and by descent in 1963 to his nephew Alec Middleton George, Nantwich, Cheshire.