A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DESK
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DESK

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE KNEEHOLE DESK
The rectangular crossbanded top with ebonised edge, above a frieze drawer with a green baize-lined slide flanked on each side by a further fiddleback-mahogany panelled slide, above a panelled door enclosing a shelf, flanked on each side by three mahogany-lined drawers with chamfered front corners, on later shaped bracket feet
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 36¼ in. (92 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The table's richly carved and serpentined frame, with flower-festooned acanthus, relates to those of chair patterns illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754. A related table, formerly in the Henry Hirsch Collection, is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol.III, p. 200, fig. 26. It was sold by him, in these Rooms, 10 June 1931, lot 52.

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