λ AN ITALIAN WALNUT AND IVORY INLAID TWIN PEDESTAL DESK

λ AN ITALIAN WALNUT AND IVORY INLAID TWIN PEDESTAL DESK

LOMBARDY, 19TH CENTURY

with ebonised banding, the top inlaid with a central classical scene of centurions with chariots, flanked by mythical female term figures with wings and horse's legs, holding urns with scrolling leaves, above three frieze drawers, each pedestal with a hinged cupboard door decorated with a figure of a saint, enclosing a shelf, the sides and back with ebonised outline mouldings and inlaid with further classical figures and grotesques, on later castors

82.4cm high, 118cm wide, 61cm deep