VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY-INLAID ROSEWOOD TABLE BUREAU ON STAND
VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The hinged writing slope depicting a tree and with a hinged stationery compartment behind, with broad foliate borders throughout, on a stand with shaped aprons and square chamfered legs, with 'W.& A. Chapman, Taunton' depository label, stamped 'J G YOUNG'
32 ¾ in. (83 cm.) high; 21 ¾ in. (56 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

Provenance

J. G. Young (according to label).

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Lot Essay

Table bureaus were particularly popular in the eighteenth century, and were eventually copied in the East for the Western market, most notably in rich ivory-inlay, as in the present lot. However this form with its 'gothick' stand appears to be less commonplace. A similar table bureau, in the collection of Sir Edward Knatchbull of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent was mounted on a 'very neat new stand' by Thomas Chippendale in 1767 (see P. K. Thornton, 'The Furnishing of Mersham le Hatch I & II', Apollo, April 1970, pp. 266-77, and June 1970, pp. 440-51 reference in C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, 1978, p. 221). The Mersham-le-Hatch example is illustrated in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, 2001, fig. 86.

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