A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE

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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
The rounded rectangular simulated leather-lined top above a panelled frieze with two end frieze drawers, on square trestle-end supports joined by a ring-turned baluster stretcher with central gadrooning issuing lotus-leaves, the ends carved with flowerhead patera, on moulded ends with lotus-leaf brackets and gadrooned feet, with sunken castors, the castors stamped 'COPES PATENT'
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 48 in. (122 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related trestle-end writing-table was sold from the collection of the late Dowager Lady Camoys, The Dower House, Stonor, in these Rooms, 14 April 1988, lot 78.
A table pattern, with Grecian palm-flowered trestles and palm-wrapped stretcher and trusses, was published in 1824 in Rudolph Ackermann's The Repository of Arts (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, London, 1984, p. 155).

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