A George III Black Japanned & Chinoiserie Decorated Kneehole Desk c.1790 sub-Art & Sculpture The whole is sturdy and

The whole is sturdy and can be used quite happily as is

and read by Bram Stoker

This type of art had the immediacy and drama then that movies today have for modern audiences with the most humble of peasants being able to relate to what they saw

However this picture was not in the consignment

Henry Southgate Sands

A George III Black Japanned & Chinoiserie Decorated Kneehole Desk c.1790 sub-Art & Sculpture The whole is sturdy andOrigin: English Period: George III Provenance: From a West Coast of Scotland Lodge Date: c. 1790 Height: 29 Width: 34 Depth: 21. 5 (all at top) The eighteenth century black japanned thick pine carcass kneehole desk of diminutive size, having a rectangular top above a long frieze drawer and arched recess with cupboard door, flanked by banks of three drawers, and raised on bracket feet, decorated throughout with gilt and polychrome Chinoiserie