Martlesham Antiques is a family run business and has been trading since 1984. We are located in Suffolk just outside Woodbridge and is run from a spacious thatched cottage housing nine large showrooms with a vast adjacent car park. Specialising in 18th and 19th century furniture, together with creating custom hand-made furniture which is supplied to various interior designers, trade and the retail market. Every piece on the showroom floor is in excellent condition and ready to go straight into the buyers home or premises. All of Martlesham Antiques furniture is hand polished by their own French polishers and restorers to a very high standard. We are also a member of LAPADA, the association of art and antiques.
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Suffolk, UK
19th Century Camphor Wood Secretaire Military Chest
REF: 3621 / LA485802
£5,550
€6,483
$6,981
Certified DealerApproved item1718 sales by dealerFree DeliveryAvailable for local pick-up
Certified DealerApproved item1718 sales by dealerFree DeliveryAvailable for local pick-up
Description
19th Century (c.1840) antique camphor wood secretaire military chest made for the Chinese export market, having a combination of seven drawers and with each drawer having the original brass recessed handles and decorated with ebony inlay stringing, having four graduated long drawers and a secretaire drawer at the centre flanked with a tall single drawer either side, the secretaire drawer pulls out to reveal a black leather writing surface decorated with blind and gilt tooling, lovely fitted interior with various compartments and a single drawer opening to reveal a pen tray and further compartments. The chest has brass and reeded ebonised mouldings, it splits in two for easy transportation and has the original brass carrying handles on the side of each piece and stands on turned feet.
measurements
Height:
127 cm
Width:
112 cm
Depth:
52 cm
declaration
Martlesham Antiques has clarified that the 19th Century Camphor Wood Secretaire Military Chest (LA485802) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1840
condition
In excellent condition
additional info
Material:
Date of Manufacture:
c.1840
location
This 19th Century Camphor Wood Secretaire Military Chest is located in Suffolk, United Kingdom
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