Antique Pietra Dura Marble Desk Obelisk Thermometer Ashford Blue John Derbyshire Circa 1860 Mid-Century Modern This very elegant Biedermeier secretary

This very elegant Biedermeier secretary cabinet is ready to grace your home or office

Dialogue with Modernism"

Both plaques are stamped to the rear with the impressed sceptre mark and  KPM

not as copies or fakes but as a mark of honorific respect to earlier periods

Antique Pietra Dura Marble Desk Obelisk Thermometer Ashford Blue John Derbyshire Circa 1860 Mid-Century Modern This very elegant Biedermeier secretarySOLD A fine & large antique black marble & specimen stone desk obelisk & thermometer, Ashford Derbyshire, circa 1860. This large 15. 5" tall obelisk is made of Derbyshire black marble. The obelisk is elegantly inlaid with a band of semi precious polished hard stone surround the mercury thermometer, including Derbyshire Blue John, Polished slate with fossils, Malachite, Carrara marble, polished agates etc. The ivory panel behind the glass thermometer