Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Paintings An unusual cast iron gilded

An unusual cast iron gilded mirror with a winged cherub finial above a twin arched mirror

Frederic Carder

An important Old Master oil on canvas painting by the Flemish artist

The case is signed internally and also with a chop mark to the exterior

Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Paintings An unusual cast iron gildedA 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 &