Live Auction 5969A West Country Tradition - Avon Antiques, Bradford-upon-Avon, Wiltshire
Lot 186

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND AMARANTH 'HORSE-SHOE' WRITING-TABLE

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Closed21 May 2009

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GBP 1,750

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND AMARANTH 'HORSE-SHOE' WRITING-TABLE
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Crossbanded and boxwood lined, the top with black tooled leather writing-surface above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, with conforming undertier, on square tapering legs and spade feet
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 36½ in. (93 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (39 cm.) deep, at the centre

Specialist note

This form of table was popularised as a 'horseshoe' table by Thomas Sheraton in his October 1792 engraving published in the Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1791-94.