An Early 20thC Italian Polychrome Painted Pedestal Centre Desk c.1920 sub-Religion & Relics The Rime of the Ancient

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So many artists have depicted them that a list would be pointless

a rather unusual shape

raised on parcel gilt walnut cabriole front legs with swept back legs

in Yorkshire

An Early 20thC Italian Polychrome Painted Pedestal Centre Desk c.1920 sub-Religion & Relics The Rime of the AncientOrigin: North ItalianPeriod: Early 20thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1920Height: 30 (the kneehole at 24)Width: 59Depth: 30 (all at extremities)The beautiful polychrome painted pedestal desk, the decoration in the late eighteenth century neoclassical manner and the shape and form of the late nineteenth century, in an ivory coloured ground, the top painted with a central harbour scene within cornucopia and italianate foliate black tablets, the flanks