Description

Desk of the "demountable table' type, consisting of a top board and a pair of supports. The rectangular top has a divided central panel set into and flush with its frame. On each of the short ends of its underside are two rectangular slots into which fit the projections at the outer sides of the tops of the cabinets supports. These rectangular supporting stands each have two drawers in the top with brass bound keyholes and bail handles and bead-moulded apron drawer and leg frames. Their straight legs of square section are joined near the bottom by stretcher enclosing lower fretted or openwork shelves. The paneling is sunken with raised central sections, the style extremely simple. The dark brown wood shows here and there reddish lights and the remains of a satiny finish. Central two-board panel separating from from of top.