Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Decorative Arts owned by the same family

owned by the same family of Russian heritage since the early 1900's

Bigelow moved to Chicago where he established a studio in Crosby's Opera House

it runs and keeps good time

" It was controversial at the time as being too abstract for a public art project

Despite this case dating circa 1910 it has a later engraved legend to the base "Greek Army Day Athens

Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Decorative Arts owned by the same familyA 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 &