Lot Essay
Similar elaborate marquetry can be seen on centre tables by Edward Holmes Baldock, C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, vol. II, no. 395, pp. 318-320.
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Details
A WILLIAM IV ORMOLU AND BRASS-MOUNTED, WALNUT, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE
The moulded serpentine top inlaid with a border of red tortoiseshell and ivory and mother-of-pearl intricately interlaced and centred by scrolling floral and foliate cartouches of harewood and sycamore, above a concave frieze with guilloche moulding, on foliate-wrapped trestle-end supports, scroll feet and castors, restorations
30 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 60 in. (152.5 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep
The moulded serpentine top inlaid with a border of red tortoiseshell and ivory and mother-of-pearl intricately interlaced and centred by scrolling floral and foliate cartouches of harewood and sycamore, above a concave frieze with guilloche moulding, on foliate-wrapped trestle-end supports, scroll feet and castors, restorations
30 in. (77.5 cm.) high; 60 in. (152.5 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 20 April 1985, lot 163.