A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND PAINTED WORK-TABLE inlaid overall with mahogany lines, with hinged rectangular top with reading support and concealed mahogany-lined fitted side drawer above a fixed green tasselled silk-lined tapering work-basket supported on a rusticated castle shaft on the back of an elephant, on a stepped plinth and concave-sided canted rectangular platform base, on gilt-painted brass ball feet, restorations, the basket re-constructed | Christie's

Lot 19

A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND PAINTED WORK-TABLE inlaid overall with mahogany lines, with hinged rectangular top with reading support and concealed mahogany-lined fitted side drawer above a fixed green tasselled silk-lined tapering work-basket supported on a rusticated castle shaft on the back of an elephant, on a stepped plinth and concave-sided canted rectangular platform base, on gilt-painted brass ball feet, restorations, the basket re-constructed

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND PAINTED WORK-TABLE inlaid overall with mahogany lines, with hinged rectangular top with reading support and concealed mahogany-lined fitted side drawer above a fixed green tasselled silk-lined tapering work-basket supported on a rusticated castle shaft on the back of an elephant, on a stepped plinth and concave-sided canted rectangular platform base, on gilt-painted brass ball feet, restorations, the basket re-constructed
19¾in.(50cm.)wide; 30½in.(77.5cm.)high; 15¼in.(39cm.)deep

Lot Essay

Three vitrine tables with similar elephant-and-castle supports were in the Edward James Collection at West Dean Park, Chichester, Sussex, sold Christie's house sale, 2 June 1986, lots 304-5

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