ALFRED WATERHOUSE (1830-1905) (ATTRIBUTED DESIGNER) WRITING DESK, CIRCA 1870 oak, with tooled leather writing surface and brass fittings

(122cm wide, 75cm high, 60cm deep)

Literature: Cooper, J., Victorian & Edwardian Furniture & Interiors, Thames & Hudson, London, 1987, p. 106, pl. 229 where a desk with comparable structural form is illustrated. Note: Alfred Waterhouse is perhaps best remembered as the architect of the Natural History Museum in London. The furniture he conceived was for his own buildings. He designed all the furniture for the Earl of Selborne’s Blackmoor House in Hampshire and this current desk is similar in form and proportions to one created for the Earl.