Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Sculpture A good antique German Hand-Painted

A good antique German Hand-Painted KPM porcelain portrait plaque signed "Wagner" after the painting "Reflection" by the Italian artist Angelo Asti (1847-1903)

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113 cm X 75 cm

A good antique Zanzibar

4" diameter X 1" tall

Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Sculpture A good antique German Hand-PaintedA 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 &