With slant front upper desk portion, with flame-grained matched mahogany veneers below a raised gilt-metal gallery with brass knop finials that elevates on racheted supports; the interior with contrasting maple writing surface and burl veneers and drawer fronts, with ormolu borders and document drawer fronts, the sides of the top with eagle and lyre mounts, resting on a cabinet base with matched flame-grained veneered doors with lyre form mounts at the centers of the front and sunburst on centers of the sides, trophy mounts on upper and  acorn mounts on lower corners, the interior with shelves, on square bracket feet below a band of branded leaf-tip decoration.
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19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>
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