This beautifully carved Japanese Export desk has an elaborately carved top section with reticulated dragons and compartments on either side with a dragon motif and a lower drawers with a dragon door pulls and in the upper middle is three curved shelves, the top shelf and two mid shelves, on the side panels are carved irises, the desk top has a repeating border, the apron has a finely carved dragon with drawers on each side with dragon door pulls, the side panels have a carved carp and wave motif, it is supported on elaborately carved dragon cabriole legs. This desk is from the Art Nouveau period. Japan created these pieces for the Western export market. They discontinued making this type of furniture in 1925. Japan: 1880-1925 - Height: 55 ½” x 46’ wide x 30” deep (desk top 30 ½” high) (cm 141 x 77.5 x 116.8 desk top 76.2)