Live Auction 5448Christie's Interiors
A VICTORIAN FIGURED WALNUT PEDESTAL DESK
Lot 315

A VICTORIAN FIGURED WALNUT PEDESTAL DESK

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 March 2011

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GBP 4,750

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A VICTORIAN FIGURED WALNUT PEDESTAL DESK
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The later green leather top above three frieze drawers with three drawers to each pedestal on a moulded plinth, label: 'DRUCE & CO/...BAKER STREET...'
29¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 48½ in. (122.5 cm.) wide; 26½ in. (67.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

Druce & Co, 68 Baker Street, Portman Square, London, were established in the 1840's and were both cabinet makers and retailers of second-hand furniture. In the Marylebone Trade Directory of 1853, they described themselves as 'Furnishers,Upholsterers and Upholders for clients of discernment'.