Antique Writing Furniture - Secretaires Chests
ANTIQUE OAK, WALNUT AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRES
The term secretaire is a kind of catch-all word for antique writing furniture other than out-and-out bureaux, davenports, bonheurs-du-jour, pedestal desks and other specific items. It is used for fall-front walnut pieces, often described in their original papers as scrutoires (or escritoires) and for later pieces of a writing nature.
A walnut secretaire chest on chest with an unusual design of recessed sunburst in the bottom drawer, indicating quality. The quality of the interior of the secretaire drawer is quite exceptional, with concave curved drawers and pigeon-holes. Note that the drawers have a lip moulding and herring-bone inlaid lines inside the crossbanding. A fine piece with superb patination.
Wide range because colour and patination very important
A high quality mahogany chest with a broken pediment The corners of the upper chest have a blind fret. It is the right therefore desirable. 1740-1760
secretaire chest on with dentil frieze. are chamfered and height to sit at.
A rather uninspired oak secretaire chest on chest with slide and pillared corners to the upper chest. The top moulding is arcaded in the cavetto and has a dentil frieze above in the top moulding. The interior is a little crude and either the drawer runners are worn or the drawers don’t fit, but above all it is too high to sit at, which renders it unusable, hence undesirable. 1740-1760
A plain but well-bred mahogany secretaire chest on Hepplewhite splayed feet with shaped apron. A neat interior fit-up in satin-finish wood and original
handles to the drawers. It will end up married to a bookcase top, trying to look like an impoverished
cousin of 1780-1800
A mahogany secretaire chest on chest, with fine quality figuring, on serpentine bracket feet. The fittings of the secretaire drawer are also of high quality with ogee-curved pigeon-hole decoration. The top moulding is fluted and dentiled; the whole finish is high quality and the piece looks good. 1750-1770
A good quality mahogany secretaire chest of slightly later date with boxwood stringing and ivory inlaid keyholes. Note that instead of the top moulding of the previous example, there is a flush top raised above the secretaire drawer, with inlaid stringing lines in a pattern. The use of light coloured wood to imitate swags of drapery over the pigeon-holes is particularly imaginative a good crisp piece, which will be hard to marry. If attempts are made, the satinwood stringing line design will be repeated on the frieze of the bookcase but the grain of the wood is likely to give the game away. 1790-1810
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