Modern and Early 20th Century Design

provenance: Christie's, July 27, 2016, Lot 203

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 October 2010, lot 174.

NOTE: With one side of the top border broken at the seam revealing plywood interior. Would need to be fixed, but is stable enough to use and presents acceptably as is.

Otherwise, various scratches, nicks, edge-wear and scuffs throughout the wood body. The pegs that attach the uppermost top surface present, but a few broken. The desk sits level. The inlaid motif is stable, flush to the body and intact. Scuffs to the interior of the desk throughout, dark stains to one area of the external motif at a column top. Please see or request additional condition images.

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