Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
DESKS davenports
The davenport desk has been associated with the Victorian period for so long that it seems strange to conjecture that its popularity was possibly in decline by the 1880s. The name comes from Gillow’s Cost Books of the 1790s ‘Captain Davenport, a desk’ written alongside the design. So the davenport was initially a Georgian [...]
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
DESKS: DAVENPORT
Regency rosewood Davenport desk with swivel top.
Antique davenport desk produced in 18th century 1795-1885 small free-standing writing-desk made in large numbers and with many variations through the 19thC. The name derives from an entry in the 1790s cost books of Gillow in Lancaster - ‘For Capt. Davenport, a desk’- alongside a design for a [...]
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