A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
The moulded rectangular ratcheted top with removable reading-stop, above a frieze drawer and a pen-and-ink drawer to each side, on turned legs, joined by a serpentine and three turned baluster stretchers, on brass and leather castors, restorations
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 22 in. (57 cm.) wide; 15 in. (39.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A related George III spindle-legged and drawer-fitted work-table, with flowers and a book inlaid in the top, was formerly in the Saloon at Uppark, Hampshire (see C. Rowell, Uppark, London, 1995, p. 59). Similarly serpentined stretchers feature on a six-legged 'spider' table dating from the 1760s, at the Vyne, Hampshire (see R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, p. 553, fig. 19) which also relates to a 'spider' table supplied in 1768 for Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1779) (see C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, fig. 410.).

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