An early Victorian rosewood davenport
the serpentine shaped shelf, raised on a pierced fret-carved foliate gallery, with a leather-lined sloping slide with bold bead and reel edge enclosing two true and two false drawers, with a hinged pen slide, above a scrolled panel cupboard door enclosing four further drawers, the front supported on acanthus capped column supports, on an incurved plinth base with castors -- 22in. (56cm.) wide
An early Victorian rosewood davenport
the serpentine shaped shelf, raised on a pierced fret-carved foliate gallery, with a leather-lined sloping slide with bold bead and reel edge enclosing two true and two false drawers, with a hinged pen slide, above a scrolled panel cupboard door enclosing four further drawers, the front supported on acanthus capped column supports, on an incurved plinth base with castors -- 22in. (56cm.) wide
