THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 88 - 91)
A REGENCY GILT-BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE with rounded rectangular twin-flap top inlaid with boxwood lines and crossbanded with rosewood, above a pair of lozenge-inlaid cedar-lined frieze drawers flanked by stylised greek-key above a brass-inlaid ebony border, on twin acanthus-carved lyre-shaped supports joined by a scrolled arched stretcher, on downswept stiff-leaf carved channelled legs with central acorn and oak leg panel, anthemion-mounted brass caps and castors, restorations, the lyres later and possibly the legs, the stretcher formerly higher, the drawer arrangement altered

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A REGENCY GILT-BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY SOFA TABLE with rounded rectangular twin-flap top inlaid with boxwood lines and crossbanded with rosewood, above a pair of lozenge-inlaid cedar-lined frieze drawers flanked by stylised greek-key above a brass-inlaid ebony border, on twin acanthus-carved lyre-shaped supports joined by a scrolled arched stretcher, on downswept stiff-leaf carved channelled legs with central acorn and oak leg panel, anthemion-mounted brass caps and castors, restorations, the lyres later and possibly the legs, the stretcher formerly higher, the drawer arrangement altered
60½in. (154cm.) wide; 28½in. (72.5cm.) high; 27¼in. (69.5cm.) deep
Literature
Anthony Livesey, A Treasury of World Antiques, London, 1979, p.213

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