CIRCA 1815

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A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY WRITING TABLES
CIRCA 1815
Each fitted with two drawers, on end standards with an arched stretcher, on brass castors, one table inscribed in chalk 'W.MST' to the underside, lacking three sections of moulding from the trestle ends, and two rounded corner blocks, one with quarter-fillets
29 in. (73½ cm.) high; 29¾ in. (75½ cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44½ cm.) deep (2)

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Lot Essay

With their stepped block end-standards flanking a very open kneehole, these tables, although reminiscent of Gillows' production, are of different character. In some ways, they are reminiscent of the work of James Newton of Wardour Street, who employed similar rosette handles on his end-standard tables (G. Elwood, 'James Newton', Furniture History Society Journal, XXXI, 1995, figs.54-55).

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