BASICALLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY, EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS

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A PAIR OF BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLES
BASICALLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY, EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS
The rounded rectangular twin-flap top above a pair of frieze drawers, with palmette escutcheons and pull-handles with star backplates, on rectangular end-supports joined by an arched stretcher and with downswept legs with brass caps and castors, the locks replaced, the remainder of the metalwork original
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high; 60½ in. (153.5 cm.) wide, open; 27¼ in. (69 cm.) deep (2)

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Sale room notice

This pair of sofa tables should be catalogued as:
A PAIR OF BRASS-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLES
BASICALLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY, EXTENSIVE RESTORATIONS
The estimate has been reduced to £12,000-£18,000.

Lot Essay

The tables' palm-flowered escutcheons framed by Egyptian sunburst handles feature on early 19th century furniture supplied by Gillow of London and Lancaster, such as the sofa-table supplied for Shugborough, Staffordshire (J. Martin Robinson, Shugborough, 1989, p. 76). The same pattern was adopted by John McLean & Son and appears on a group of lyre-trestled library-tables attributed to his Marylebone Street firm (see the table originally supplied to the Lords Brownlow, Belton, Lincolnshire, and recently sold anonymously [from a Private Long Island Collector], Christie's, New York, 17 October 2003, lot 176).

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