Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Redo Tom Fawkes taught at the

Tom Fawkes taught at the University of Oregon and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the 1960s

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like many other European painters was fascinated with North Africa and painted many oriental scenes of Algiers

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Antique 18th Century VOC Dutch Colonial Padouk Ebony Secretary Desk Bureau 1730 Redo Tom Fawkes taught at theA 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 &