Escritoire
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1710
Materials
Walnut, brass.
Measurements
165 x 107 x 51 cm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Trerice, Cornwall
NT 336779
Summary
A figured walnut scriptor or escritoire, English, circa 1710, cross-banded and feather-banded and with original handles and escutcheons, with a convex drawer in the upper frieze, the fall-front enclosing an arrangement of twelve drawers around a central cupboard below a row of eight pigeonholes, further secret drawers within, the writing surface with baize-lined panel, the lower section with two short and two long drawers, on bracket feet.