A LATE VICTORIAN ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY STICK-STAND
A REGENCY BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED BOOKCASE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY BRASS AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD DOUBLE-SIDED BOOKCASE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular top with pierced gallery, above two adjustable rosewood shelves with mahogany centreboard, flanked by reeded turned supports, with lion-mask handles on each side, on ring-turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, the metalwork apparently original
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 34½ in. (87.5 cm.) wide; 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A related mobile and china-railed library was formerly at St. Giles' House, Wiltshire (see M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965, fig. 189). A similar example was sold from 'Un Hotel Particulier du Faubourg Saint Germain: The Collection of the Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel', Christie's, London, 21-22 November 2007, lot 150 (£11,250), while another, almost identical to the present lot was with Ronald Phillips Ltd, circa 2003-4.

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