An Early 20thC Italian Polychrome Painted Pedestal Centre Desk c.1920 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews graphically strong and of good

graphically strong and of good provenance this pair prove both decoratively and intellectually appealing

and often took on a very primitive

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Sakai’s patent for this stroller in 1969 reads

An Early 20thC Italian Polychrome Painted Pedestal Centre Desk c.1920 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews graphically strong and of goodOrigin: 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