Lot 124
124
A REGENCY MAHOGANY EXTENDING LIBRARY-TABLE after a design by Thomas Sheraton, inlaid overall with a boxwood line, the crossbanded rectangular top with two sliding leaves, with two part cedar-lined frieze drawers to front and back, on removable turned tapering legs headed by brass rings and on elongated brass caps and leather castors

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY EXTENDING LIBRARY-TABLE after a design by Thomas Sheraton, inlaid overall with a boxwood line, the crossbanded rectangular top with two sliding leaves, with two part cedar-lined frieze drawers to front and back, on removable turned tapering legs headed by brass rings and on elongated brass caps and leather castors
39in. (99cm.) wide, closed
74¼in (189cm.) wide, open; 30in. (76cm.) high; 39in. (99cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This model of practical breakfast and dining-table with slider-leaves was descibed as a 'universal' table by Thomas Sheraton in his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book, 1793, pl.XXV. The plate was engraved in 1791. Sheraton commented that 'when both leaves are slipped under the bed, it will then serve as a breakfast-table; when one leaf is out, .....it will accomodate five persons as a dining-table; and if both are out, it will admit of eight, being near seven feet long, and three feet six inches in width.'

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