Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Mid-Century Modern But this uncongenial employment cannot

But this uncongenial employment cannot have lasted long

wonderful patina to the bronze and no damage or restoration

The chair is in excellent condition

the chest on chest is raised on shaped bracket feet

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Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Mid-Century Modern But this uncongenial employment cannotA very rare antique Dutch Colonial V. O. C. (Dutch East India Company) fall front bureau desk on stand, Batavia, circa 1730. This desk in the Queen Anne style was made in the Dutch East Indies, known as Batavia (now Indonesia) under the Colonial Dutch. The desk is made from padouk (Amboyna) and ebony wood, the desk having an ebony 'rippled' gallery to the top that follows the outline of the desk. The paneled fall front with a pierced work escutcheon &