THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY, EBONY AND EBONISED SIDEBOARD

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A SCOTTISH REGENCY MAHOGANY, EBONY AND EBONISED SIDEBOARD
The rounded breakfront rectangular top with a raised superstructure containing two sliding panels each decorated with scrolls and foliage sliding to reveal cupboards and both flanking a central breakfront panel, the frieze with a conforming panelled long drawer flanked by two small drawers on spirally-reeded and ring-turned baluster legs headed by rectangular panels, with a 1in. (2.5cm.) strip to the reverse of the superstructure, possibly originally with brass gallery, restorations
73¼in. (186cm.) wide; 41in. (104cm.) high; 24in. (61cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The sideboard-table, with Etruscan-black enrichments, has palm-flowered Grecian tablets such as featured on a French-style chair in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1807 (pl. XXIV, no. 3), while reed-twined legs feature on Hope's Roman dining-couch (pl. XXVIII, no. 6).

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