Lot Essay
A virtually identical table, but lacking the triglyphs and with slightly differing feet, was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 21 April 1979, lot 54.
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
(Lot 676)
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE
CIRCA 1775
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD TABLE A ECRIRE
Circa 1775
The oval white marble top with pierced three-quarter gallery, above a guilloche-cast panelled frieze-drawer fitted with a hinged gilt-tooled green-leather writing-surface, inkwell and sander, on patera and guttae-headed tapering square legs joined by a kidney-shaped undertier, with ormolu caps
29in. (73.5cm.) high, 22½in. (57cm.) wide, 17¼in. (44cm.) deep
Circa 1775
The oval white marble top with pierced three-quarter gallery, above a guilloche-cast panelled frieze-drawer fitted with a hinged gilt-tooled green-leather writing-surface, inkwell and sander, on patera and guttae-headed tapering square legs joined by a kidney-shaped undertier, with ormolu caps
29in. (73.5cm.) high, 22½in. (57cm.) wide, 17¼in. (44cm.) deep