A REGENCY ROSEWOOD REVOLVING BOOKSTAND

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD REVOLVING BOOKSTAND
The later circular green leather-lined top above an octagonal frieze and four sides with simulated shelves with bookspines, two sides with one open adjustable shelf and two sides with two shallow adjustable shelves, on a plinth, formerly with castors, sections to the base later and mechanism non-functional
24in. (61.5cm.) diam.; 32¾in. (83cm.) high

Lot Essay

A design for a related circular bookcase is illustrated in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, March, 1810, and a further circular model with mounts and of 1810 is illustrated in C. Musgrave, Regency Furniture, London, 1961, illus. 77A.

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