拍品 67
67
A VICTORIAN EBONY-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE with eared rectangular green leather-lined top with scroll-inlaid border above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side, the angles mounted with ebonised lion masks, on Ionic capitals and turned legs with stiff-leaf tops, fluted tapering stems and panelled square blocks with claw feet, restorations, the later lock stamped PARKES, WILLENHALL, ENGLAND UNION

细节
A VICTORIAN EBONY-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE with eared rectangular green leather-lined top with scroll-inlaid border above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side, the angles mounted with ebonised lion masks, on Ionic capitals and turned legs with stiff-leaf tops, fluted tapering stems and panelled square blocks with claw feet, restorations, the later lock stamped PARKES, WILLENHALL, ENGLAND UNION
60in. (152cm.) wide, 28½in. (72cm.) high, 40½in. (103cm.) deep

拍品专文

Designed in the early 19th century 'antique' manner, its lion-mask tablets and fluted columnar legs terminating in lion-paws relate to patterns for sideboard-tables published by Thomas Sheraton in his Encyclopedia, 1804 and George Smith in his, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808