A GEORGE III EBONISED-INLAID SYCAMORE, BIRCH AND EBONISED TWO-TIER ETAGERE

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A GEORGE III EBONISED-INLAID SYCAMORE, BIRCH AND EBONISED TWO-TIER ETAGERE
The rectangular top above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer inlaid with husk swags, the lock stamped '4 LEVER', on spirally-fluted supports above a mahogany-lined drawer, on spirally-fluted legs joined by an X-shaped platform stretcher above fluted legs and slender bun feet, originally with a hinged top and now later fitted with a drawer to the frieze, the inlay probably added when the top was converted, restorations
32 in. (82.5 cm.) high; 18 in. (48 cm.) wide; 14 in. (37.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The table, originally conceived as a basin-stand with ewer-tray stretcher, has its moulded top and flute-enriched columns ebonised black in the 'Etruscan' or antique manner of the 1770s. Its hermed legs, terminating in elliptic spheres, relate to bedroom furniture executed in the late 1790s by John Linnell of Berkeley Square, for Osterley Park, Middlesex (M.Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, pp. 92-95).

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