A REGENCY ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE

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细节

A REGENCY ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE
The rounded rectangular top with three-quarter Greek-key pierced gallery and milled border, above a pair of frieze drawers with star handles and anthemion escutcheons, with conforming drawers to the reverse, on lyre-end supports joined by an arched stretcher, on square tapering legs with foliate caps and castors, the handles original
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 44 in. (112 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

来源

Bought from Blairman & Sons, 1961, and by descent.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

This 'Grecian' writing-table relates to a group of almost identical tables, some of which have been associated with the Regency cabinet-maker, John McLean (d. 1825). A table, formerly in the collection of Adelbert Salusbury Cockayne, 5th Baron Brownlow (d. 1927), Belton House Lincolnshire, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 18 October 1997, lot 502. Other examples of this model are one sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 12 March 1970, lot 24. Another sold from the collection of the late the Hon. Mrs Pretyman, Orwell Park, Suffolk, sold Sotheby's London, 7 July 1995, lot 138 and one sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 11 November 1999, lot 60 (£54,300, inc. premium).