拍品 60
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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND EBONISED ROSEWOOD BONHEUR-DU-JOUR

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND EBONISED ROSEWOOD BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
Inlaid overall with boxwood lines, the three-quarter galleried superstructure with key pattern supported by associated stylised winged eagles above a pair of mahogany-lined drawers the rounded-rectangular breakfront base with a fitted secretaire frieze drawer with a red leather-lined writing-surface, on turned tapering legs, with paper depository label to the reverse printed 'HANNINGTONS DEPOSITORIES LTD' and inscribed in pencil 'COLDWELL'(?) and two further chalk inscriptions 'J1638'
29¼in. (74cm.) wide; 46in. (117cm.) high; 19in. (48.5cm.) deep

拍品专文

The writing-table, with inlay of husk-enriched tablets and ribboned borders and accompanying trellis-backed bookshelves with eagle trusses, relates to a 'commode' bonheur-du-jour sold anonymously in these Rooms, 26 June 1986, lot 124. The eagle monopodia also featured on a chiffonier advertised by Messrs. Phillips in The Connoisseur, June 1977, while its inlay relates to that of a library table pattern of 1804 published in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household and Interior Decoration, London, 1808, pl.86.