PROBABLY BY GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD WRITING TABLE
PROBABLY BY GEORGE OAKLEY, CIRCA 1810
The rectangular top inset with later tooled-leather inset top with inlaid-brass edge, the paneled frieze with drawers and opposing sham drawers on trestle supports with brass-inlaid down-swept legs joined by a turned stetcher on casters
28½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, 32¾ in. (83 cm.) wide, 21¼ in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Arthingworth Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 12 December 1996, lot 264.

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Lot Essay

This writing table's geometric brass ornament and rosewood veneers relates to the work of George Oakley (d.1841), who produced furniture in the Grecian style for the Prince Regent among other distinguished patrons during his long career which lasted from 1789 to 1819. The firm was granted a royal warrant in 1799 after receiving a visit from Queen Charlotte and other members of the royal family upon which "...her MAJESTY, the Duke and Duchess of YORK, and the PRINCESSES, &c., highly approved of the splendid variety which has justly attracted the notice of the fashionable world" (Morning Chronicle, May 1799).

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