EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND TULIPWOOD CROSS-BANDED ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
Early 19th Century
The rectangular top with line inlay and a brass inlaid rosette at each corner, above two frieze drawers and two false drawers on spreading panelled end standards headed by rounded angles and on palmette-mounted scroll feet with concealed brass castors, the interior of the drawer bearing a label 'H.R.H./THE CROWN PRINCE/PRIVATE VILLA/RECEPTION ROOM/ASPREY LONDON', the underside of the other drawer inscribed '70' in chalk
30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

with Quinney's Antiques, Chester.

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Lot Essay

The ormolu-enriched table was designed to accompany a fireside Grecian-sofa with its Ionic-scrolled and plinth-supported pilasters ornamented in the French/antique fashion. The same patterned pilasters featured on a yew-veneered table formerly in the collection of Frances C. Albee; but, whereas the present table's ribbon-banded top is embellished with 'buhl'-inlaid paterae, the latter table's ribbon-band was entirely 'buhl'-inlaid in the Louis Quatorze fashion (sold Sotheby's New York, 8/9 December 1959, lot 397).

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