A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED PARTRIDGEWOOD WRITING-TABLE

IN THE MANNER OF JOHN MCLEAN

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED PARTRIDGEWOOD WRITING-TABLE
In the manner of John McLean
The rounded rectangular green leather-lined top with three-quarter pierced Greek-key gallery, the top with milled edge, above two long part-cedar part mahogany-lined frieze drawers and a narrow fitted ink- drawer, flanked on the rounded corners by foliage mounts, with conforming simulated drawers to the reverse, on pierced lyre-end supports, the scrolls with swirling paterae, joined by an arched stretcher, on square tapering downswept legs, brass paw caps and castors, one leg later
29¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 51½ in. (130.5 cm.) wide; 29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The sofa-table, brass-enriched in the French manner and with 'Apollo' palm-flowered lyre trestles in the Grecian style, relates to one supplied about 1810 for Belton House, Lincolnshire (sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 10 July 1987, lot 99). It relates to the 'Elegant Parisian Furniture' advertised in 1806 by John McLean & Son of Marylebone Street (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, Leeds, 1996, p. 38).

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