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The Louis Quinze style table bears the brand of G.J. Morant, who was trading at 91 New Bond Street in the 1840s and exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition.
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BY G. I. MORANT
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID CALAMANDER WRITING-TABLE
By G. I. Morant
The moulded rectangular top with red-leather writing-surface, flanked on each side by a conforming slide, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer and a waved apron to the front, sides and reverse, on tapering cabriole legs headed by C-scroll and foliage angles and joined by a platform stretcher, with rockwork and C-scroll sabots, stamped to the underside 'G.I. MORANT 91 NEW BOND ST.'
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 21 in. (55 cm.) wide; 17 in. (44 cm.) deep
By G. I. Morant
The moulded rectangular top with red-leather writing-surface, flanked on each side by a conforming slide, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer and a waved apron to the front, sides and reverse, on tapering cabriole legs headed by C-scroll and foliage angles and joined by a platform stretcher, with rockwork and C-scroll sabots, stamped to the underside 'G.I. MORANT 91 NEW BOND ST.'
28 in. (71 cm.) high; 21 in. (55 cm.) wide; 17 in. (44 cm.) deep