Lot Essay
The round-end library table, with its bulbous pillars and yoke-ended stretcher, relates to patterns in C and R Light's Cabinet Furniture; Designs and Catalogue, of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture', 1881.
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A VICTORIAN OAK WRITING-TABLE
The shaped rectangular leather-lined top above a pair of panelled frieze drawers centred by patera and flanked by a guilloche moulding to the front and simulated drawers to the reverse, on scrolling brackets and fluted trestle end-supports joined by a stretcher arched at each end and centred by a patera finial, the scrolling feet with stylised acanthus leaves, brass castors
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 68½ in. (174 cm.) wide; 31½ in. (81 cm.) deep
The shaped rectangular leather-lined top above a pair of panelled frieze drawers centred by patera and flanked by a guilloche moulding to the front and simulated drawers to the reverse, on scrolling brackets and fluted trestle end-supports joined by a stretcher arched at each end and centred by a patera finial, the scrolling feet with stylised acanthus leaves, brass castors
29 in. (73.5 cm.) high; 68½ in. (174 cm.) wide; 31½ in. (81 cm.) deep