Antique French Walnut & Parquetry Bureau de Dame Desk 19th C

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Seller: regentantiquesuk ✉️ (2,920) 100%, Location: London N4 1BX, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 304767487669 Antique French Walnut & Parquetry Bureau de Dame Desk 19th C.

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We are one of the UK's premier furniture dealers and have been trading in London for four decades. We specialise in English and Continental furniture, silver, porcelain, and decorative items both antique and contemporary. We exhibit our collection in 25,000 square feet of elegant showrooms in our large warehouse very close to the centre of London.

Antique French Walnut & Parquetry Bureau de Dame Desk 19th C

A superb Victorian burr walnut parquetry and ormolu mounted  Bureau De Dame, circa 1870 in date.

The fall front features a decorative Jasperware ormolu mounted plaque and opens to reveal a satinwood fitted interior with a large pigeon hole, three small drawers and an inset green leather writing surface.

Fitted with the original elegant ormolu mounts and raised on square, tapered legs that terminate in brass capped toes and castors. it is free standong and ios finished all round.

With working locks and original keys.
Condition:
  In really excellent condition having been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation..

Dimensions in cm:

Height 96 x Width 77 x Depth 47

Dimensions in inches:

Height 3 foot, 2 inches x Width 2 foot, 6 inches x Depth 1 foot, 6 inches

Parquetry - is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect. The two main uses of parquetry are as veneer patterns on furniture and block patterns for flooring. Parquetry patterns are entirely geometrical and angular—squares, triangles, lozenges.

The word derives from the Old French parchet , literally meaning "a small enclosed space". Large diagonal squares known as parquet de Versailles were introduced in 1684 as parquet de menuiserie to replace the marble flooring that required constant washing, which tended to rot the joists beneath the floors.

Such parquets en lozange were noted by the Swedish architect Daniel Cronström at Versailles and at the Grand Trianon in 1693. Timber contrasting in color and grain, such as oak, walnut, cherry, lime, pine, maple etc. are sometimes employed; and in the more expensive kinds the tropical hardwoods are also used. 

 

Walnut & Burr Walnut

Walnut is a hard, dense, tight- grained wood that polishes to a very smooth finish. It is a popular and attractive wood whose colour ranges from near white in the sapwood to a dark hew in the heartwood. When dried in a kiln, walnut wood tends to develop a dull brown colour, but when air-dried can become a rich purplish-brown. Because of its colour, hardness and grain, it is a prized furniture and carving wood. Walnut veneer was highly priced and the cost would reflect the ‘fanciness’ of the veneer – the more decorative, then the more expensive and desirable.

Burr walnut refers to the swirling figure present in nearly all walnut when cut and polished, and especially in the wood taken from the base of the tree where it joins the roots. However the true burr is a rare growth on the tree where hundreds of tiny branches have started to grow. Burr walnut produces some of the most complex and beautiful figuring you can find.

Walnut "burrs" were often used to make fabulous furniture.  Veneer sliced from walnut burl is one of the most valuable and highly prized by cabinet makers and prestige car manufacturers and is also a favourite material for shotgun stocks.

 

Ormolu - Gilt Bronze  (from French 'or moulu', signifying ground or pounded gold) is an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold  in a mercury  amalgam  to an object of bronze .The mercury is driven off in a kiln  leaving behind a gold-coloured veneer known as 'gilt bronze'.

The manufacture of true ormolu employs a process known as mercury-gilding or fire-gilding , in which a solution of nitrate of mercury  is applied to a piece of copper , brass , or bronze, followed by the application of an amalgam  of gold and mercury. The item was then exposed to extreme heat until the mercury burned off and the gold remained, adhered to the metal object.

Our reference: A3003

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