An early 20th century walnut and pine cased ornately carved desk, the twin pedestals carved as griffins, joined by a cross stretcher with carved guilloche decoration and central armorial crest of the Ferrari-Leoni family of an eagle with outstretched wings in a shield with coronet surmount, C scrolls and shell decoration, with a single oak lined frieze drawer with cast brass scroll handle marked MuP, 290/2 DEP, 170 by 83 by 81cm high. Provenance: the table was purchased by Count Louis Adolphus Leon Ferrari-Leoni, a nobleman of San Marino and a Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, who moved to the Isles of Scilly with his family in the early 1920s and married a local young lady. The desk formed part of the furnishings of St Mary's Hall, which he built in 1938 in the Italian style which has subsequently been converted into a hotel after the family moved away.
An early 20th century walnut and pine cased ornately carved desk, the twin pedestals carved as griffins, joined by a cross stretcher with carved guilloche decoration and central armorial crest of the Ferrari-Leoni family of an eagle with outstretched wings in a shield with coronet surmount, C scrolls and shell decoration, with a single oak lined frieze drawer with cast brass scroll handle marked MuP, 290/2 DEP, 170 by 83 by 81cm high. Provenance: the table was purchased by Count Louis Adolphus Leon Ferrari-Leoni, a nobleman of San Marino and a Knight Commander of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, who moved to the Isles of Scilly with his family in the early 1920s and married a local young lady. The desk formed part of the furnishings of St Mary's Hall, which he built in 1938 in the Italian style which has subsequently been converted into a hotel after the family moved away.
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