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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK
The rounded rectangular top with a super-structure on a central galleried shelf flanked on each side by a three-quarter galleried shelf above four small drawers above a black leather-lined hinged writing-slope enclosing five pigeon-holes and two small drawers, the lock stamped 'PATENT LEVER/ S. Paul & Son BIRMM' flanked by conforming leather-lined panels above two frieze drawers and a simulated frieze drawer, on twin pedestal supports each with three graduated drawers on a plinth base
55 in. (139.5 cm.) wide; 45½ in. (115.5 cm.) high; 33 in. (84 cm.) deep

拍品专文

The designer Lorenzo Booth of Coleman Street illustrated a closely related desk pattern, including the spindled gallery, in his Exhibition Book of Original Designs for Furniture, (E. T. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture, Woodbridge, 1977, p.353).