Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Paintings Designed to burn whale oil

Designed to burn whale oil which is placed into a reservoir with a lift up cover that would have four wicks

51 cm X 35

both doors with square and compass decoration

to the center is the rete and rule

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 Designed to burn whale oilA 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 &