LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III SPECIMEN-WOOD AND MAHOGANY WORK-TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
The square top inlaid with sixteen veneer specimens including thuya, satinwood, burr-yew, plane, kingwood, bird's-eye maple, mahogany, maple, rosewood, Goncalo Alves (?), tulipwood, elm, plum, ash and other woods, above a cedar and part-paper lined frieze drawer, on square tapering legs joined by a X-frame stretcher, on brass caps and castors, previously with a work-basket
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) square

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Lot Essay

The work-table, with Roman-mosaiced top of varied woods, has legs that are elegantly hermed in the antique fashion popularised by A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. Its sliding tray was originally fitted with a bag, and in which Thomas Sheraton noted: "They [the ladies] deposit their fancy needlework" (The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia, 1804-7).

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