Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Sold A good antique Italian

A good antique Italian

it had been in the same family of a British Officer who was present at the destruction of the palace

25" diameter X 5

the body of the table having carved panels with lotus flowers

Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Sold A good antique ItalianA very rare antique Dutch Colonial V. O. C. (Dutch East India Company) fall front bureau desk on stand, Batavia, circa 1730. This desk in the Queen Anne style was made in the Dutch East Indies, known as Batavia (now Indonesia) under the Colonial Dutch. The desk is made from padouk (Amboyna) and ebony wood, the desk having an ebony 'rippled' gallery to the top that follows the outline of the desk. The paneled fall front with a pierced work escutcheon &