William and Mary Inlaid Walnut Slant Front Desk

18th century, walnut veneer, oak secondary, top with herringbone banded inlay, lipped slant lid with repeating inlay with loper supports opens to reveal a well fitted interior with a green leather writing surface, central prospect door flanked by small drawers and pigeon holes over a sliding storage surface, the case with two over two graduated inlaid drawers on a shaped bracket foot base.
37 x 30 x 18 in.
Purchased from Churchill Galleries, Charlotte, North Carolina in 1995, for $11,500.

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Some old staining to the top; slant lid with crack/repair to top right corner; later green leather (in good condition); tightness to sliding interior surface; drawers reworked with later interior silk lining (but in good usable condition); later bracket foot base.