PROBABLY BY HENRY PETERS OF GENOA, 19TH CENTURY

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A MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
PROBABLY BY HENRY PETERS OF GENOA, 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular top above a frieze drawer, on tapering part-reeded legs terminating in castors; together with another similar; one with stencilled inventory number 'PPR 4257' to outside of drawer and '5203' to interior, the other with stencilled inventory number 'PPR 3543'
The first, 32 1/2 in. (78cm.) high, 35 in. (89.5cm.) long, 20 in. (51cm.) deep (2)

Special notice

This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

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Import VAT is payable at 5 on the hammer price.

Lot Essay

Although unmarked, these tables are likely made by the Savoia court cabinet-maker, Henry Thomas Peters (d. 1852). He established workshops in the former convent of Santa Brigida and advertised in the Gazette di Genoa of December 1836 the arrival of furniture imported from Paris. He received a silver medal at the 1846 Genoa Great Exhibition of National Manufactures and Products. Peters was employed under the Piedmontese architect Pelagio Pelagi (d. 1860) at the Palazzo Reale, Turin and at Castello Reale di Racconigi.

For an explanation of the 'P.P.R.' inventory number, see lot 1.

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