Lot Essay
This desk is after a design published in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, January 1810, p. 56, pl. 3. This plate is reproduced in T. Hughes, 'A Best-Selling Desk', Country Life, 14 April 1977, pp. 955-956.
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A REGENCY EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY WRITING-DESK
early 19th century
The raised superstructure with three-quarter pierced brass gallery above a geometrically inlaid panelled fall flanked by reeded vase finials, the lower section with frieze drawer sliding forward to reveal a fitted interior with an adjustable leather-lined writing surface on lotus-leaf and scroll carved cabriole legs joined by a stretcher with casters
50in. (127cm.) high, 44½in. (113cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep
early 19th century
The raised superstructure with three-quarter pierced brass gallery above a geometrically inlaid panelled fall flanked by reeded vase finials, the lower section with frieze drawer sliding forward to reveal a fitted interior with an adjustable leather-lined writing surface on lotus-leaf and scroll carved cabriole legs joined by a stretcher with casters
50in. (127cm.) high, 44½in. (113cm.) wide, 22in. (56cm.) deep