Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Paintings 51 cm X 35

51 cm X 35

Designed to burn whale oil which is placed into a reservoir with a lift up cover that would have four wicks

tests as 16k gold

An unusual cast iron gilded mirror with a winged cherub finial above a twin arched mirror

Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Paintings 51 cm X 35A 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 &