拍品 22
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A boulle and ormolu-mounted desk stand of Louis XV style, the rectangular top fitted with a dished pen tray, inlaid in a dark brown tortoiseshell with scrolling foliage, on c-scroll and acanthus-cast cabriole supports with scrolled toes, 19th Century, 14¼in. (36cm) wide

细节
A boulle and ormolu-mounted desk stand of Louis XV style, the rectangular top fitted with a dished pen tray, inlaid in a dark brown tortoiseshell with scrolling foliage, on c-scroll and acanthus-cast cabriole supports with scrolled toes, 19th Century, 14¼in. (36cm) wide

拍品专文

This desk stand and the following lot may have been executed by Thomas Parker, specialist inlayer of Air Street, London, who was patronised by George Prince Regent, later King George IV while the mounts may have been supplied by Thomas Thursfield, brass manufacturer of Oxford Street, London, (see Carlton House, Queens Gallery Exhibition, 1991, P108)