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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Certified DealerApproved item1726 sales by dealerFree DeliveryAvailable for local pick-up
Description
This is a lovely quality 19th Century antique mahogany escritoire by, or in the manor of William Trotter of Edinburgh, the top structure having a shaped swan neck pediment with carved petraeus with the sides decorated with turned spindles, at the front as well as the lower sections there is carved beading which runs down along the sides of the cabinet, the middle section having a drop down flap opening to reveal a green leather writing surface, with various drawers of all different sizes including a secret compartment with two drawers, there is also a mechanism which can be unlocked to open the side sections which pull out which includes fitted compartments, with a single drawer below and a two door cupboard with a single shelf inside, standing on ebonised turned feet.
measurements
Height:
77 IN
Width:
37 IN
Depth:
20 IN
measurements
declaration
Martlesham Antiques has clarified that the 19th Century Mahogany Escritoire c.1830 (LA37489) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being c.1830