Lot 250
250
A MAHOGANY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE
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A MAHOGANY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE

OF REGENCY STYLE, LATE 19TH 20TH CENTURY

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A MAHOGANY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE
OF REGENCY STYLE, LATE 19TH 20TH CENTURY
The red leather-lined rectangular top with roundel and foliate edge, above a frieze with alternating triglyphs and roundels and with three mahogany-lined drawers to each side, with sprung-lock mechanism, on turned fluted legs with gadrooned bun feet
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 69 in. (175 cm.) wide; 48 in. (122 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 July 2000, lot 151.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The library table, designed in the classical manner inspired by the Doric Order of Vignola, has a patteraed frieze accompanied by flowered medallions instead of bucrania, while in place of dentils it is wreathed by a studded ribbon-guilloche in the fashion popularised by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807.

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