AN EARLY VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE
The serpentine moulded top with a central red leather writing-surface bordered with floral scrolls, above two frieze drawers and two simulated drawers, a shaped apron and on keeled cabriole legs headed by pierced foliate-clasps and on foliate sabots, the underside with paper label inscribed in ink drawing-Room
47¾in. (121.5cm.) wide; 28½in. (72cm.) high; 28½in. (72cm.) deep

Provenance

The Earls Cowper, Panshanger, Hertfordshire
Thence by descent

Lot Essay

This Louis XV-style writing-table may have formed part of the furniture brought to Panshanger from the St. James's Square house of Anne Florence (d.1880), daughter and heiress of the 3rd Earl de Grey and wife of the 6th Earl Cowper.

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