Lot Essay
This type of concave-fronted dressing-table appears in the Gillow Estimate Sketch Books for 1806. Four were supplied to Parlington Hall in 1811, although they have additional drawers below the flanking frieze drawers (see: C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol. II, p. 389, no. 500)
Another is illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 84
Another is illustrated in F. Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 84