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High Top Scrolled Oak Serpentine Secretaire

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 USD
High Top Scrolled Oak Serpentine Secretaire
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For your consideration is this High Top Scrolled Oak Serpentine Secretaire. A secretary desk or escritoire is made of a base of wide drawers topped by a desk with a hinged desktop surface, which is in turn topped by a bookcase usually closed with a pair of doors, often made of glass. The whole is usually a single, tall and heavy piece of furniture. This cabinet shows fine craftsmanship with conjoined pieces fluidly brought together in a pragmatic manner. The base of this cabinet shows four drawers fashioned in a serpentine style. Just above the drawers is the pull down writing base identifying this cabinet as a Secretaire; inside the pull down writing base shows three draws and a series of six cubby holes with a centered door that opens up to show a fifth cubby hole. Just above the Secretaire writing base pull down is a display curio similar to china cabinet curios however presumably this area of the cabinet looks to be set up for books or ledgers. The additions to the true face of the cabinet has adornments of scroll top heading and neo-classical type feet. The measurements of this cabinet are 78" x 31" x 16".