Lot 111
111
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK, the moulded rectangular green leather-lined top above one deep central drawer and two flanking drawers with similar drawers to the reverse, the pedestals each with four graduated mahogany-lined drawers, one with later fitting, flanked by reeded and foliate-carved turned angles with gadrooned caps and gadrooned toupie feet, on foliate-carved rectangular plinth base, the locks stamped GR PATENT beneath a crown

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK, the moulded rectangular green leather-lined top above one deep central drawer and two flanking drawers with similar drawers to the reverse, the pedestals each with four graduated mahogany-lined drawers, one with later fitting, flanked by reeded and foliate-carved turned angles with gadrooned caps and gadrooned toupie feet, on foliate-carved rectangular plinth base, the locks stamped GR PATENT beneath a crown
73in. (185.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (79cm.) high; 47½in. (121cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This form of rectangular desk, with paired-columnettes flanking plinth-supported pedestals, relates to a desk pattern in the 'antique' manner, published by George Smith in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, p. 86. Its reed and foliage enrichments relate to Smith's candelabrum-pedestal pattern, ibid., pl. 139. The end frieze is embellished, in the French manner, with an ormolu bas-relief of a river god mask emerging from acanthus-sprays, and relates to the type of mount found on boulle-enriched writing-tables supplied by Louis Le Gaigneur to the Prince Regent in 1815 (see: M. Levy, 'Sincerest form of Flattery', Country Life, 15 June 1989, fig. 8)

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