Late 19th century Continental oak pedestal desk, ornately carved in the Renaissance Revival style, the rectangular top with projecting corners, inset with a hand-tooled leather writing surface, surmounting a central drawer with a series of four drawers on either side, each having a pull formed as a mask issuing foliate scrollwork, the sides adorned with acanthus colonettes headed by further masks, all raised on a moulded base with gadrooned edges, 31.5"h x 54"l x 30"w.