Fine quality, mid Victorian, mahogany desk / dressing table by Johnstone & Jeanes.

Product Description Fine quality, mid Victorian, mahogany kneehole desk / dressing table by Johnstone & Jeanes. The 9 cock beaded drawers of a good, hand cut , dovetailed construction with mahogany and cedarwood linings. With turned knob handles and working locks. With useful central cupboard with panelled door. Size 48 x 23 x 30 inches tall (122 x 59 x 75 cm tall) Price £950 Stock no. 6700 Johnstone & Jeanes. John Johnstone of Bond Street is widely know for his collaboration with Robert Jupe (Johnstone, Jupe & Co) whom together patented a remarkably inventive expanding circular dining table with segmented leaves called the Jupe Table in March 1835.  Their partnership was short lived owing to a falling out in 1840. Jupe separated the business moving to Wellbeck Street whilst Johnstone then traded as ‘Johnstone & Jeanes’ at their same initial address 67 New Bond Street, London from 1842 until 1880 suppling fine quality furniture.  The firm exhibited their furniture at the Great Exhibition 1851, The International Exhibition of London in 1862, and The Paris Exhibition of 1878. The Royal Collection Trust and the Victoria & Albert Museum both have stamped examples of Johnstone & Jeanes furniture within their collections as well as Buckingham Palace and numerous other important collections.