A CREAM-PAINTED AND GILT EMBELLISHED WRITING-TABLE OF GEORGE III DESIGN

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A CREAM-PAINTED AND GILT EMBELLISHED WRITING-TABLE OF GEORGE III DESIGN

The shaped and moulded rectangular breakfront top, above a sliding frieze fitted with a writing drawer flanked on either side by two short drawers, on foliate-carved and painted square tapering supports and block toes
51½in. (131cm) wide

Lot Essay

This writing-table with its foliate-capped and hermed legs derives from a 'writing-table' pattern by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779 ), published in a A Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet-makers', Genteel Household Furniture, 1760 pl.31

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