An oak gate-leg writing cabinet designed by M. H. Baillie-Scott, rectangular top above fall-flap with pierced steel hinge plates designed by C.A. Voysey, enclosing fitted interior with pigeon holes and two cupboard doors with inlaid brass, ebony and fruit wood stylized trees, on rectangular trestle ends joined by two rectangular stretchers

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An oak gate-leg writing cabinet designed by M. H. Baillie-Scott, rectangular top above fall-flap with pierced steel hinge plates designed by C.A. Voysey, enclosing fitted interior with pigeon holes and two cupboard doors with inlaid brass, ebony and fruit wood stylized trees, on rectangular trestle ends joined by two rectangular stretchers
115.5 cm.high; 91.5 cm. wide; 23.2 cm. deep

Lot Essay

Cf. The Studio, Special Summer Number, 1901, Modern British Domestic Architecture and Decoration, p.160, example illustrated; p.194, hing plates by C.A. Voysey illustrated

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