This fine example of an antique tambour front writing desk features delicate proportions and detailed inlay. The tambour doors conceal two banks of cubbies and short drawers flanking a locking center door with a finely inlaid conch shell. The fold down writing surface has a band inlaid border above two long drawers with cross-banded dividers. The square tapered legs have inlaid pilasters with beehive terminators above a graduated husk and seed motif with banded cuffs. For nearly identical examples see Northeast Auctions, August 6, 2006, lot 1722, page 241 & John & Thomas Seymour, V. Stoneman, Plate 41.

Dimensions

Height: 43 1/8"; Width: 36 5/8"; Depth: 19 1/2"