A WILLIAM IV OAK AND BROWN-OAK WRITING-TABLE

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A WILLIAM IV OAK AND BROWN-OAK WRITING-TABLE
The rounded rectangular dark-blue baize-lined top with lappeted edge, above a Gothic-panelled frieze to the front, sides and reverse, the rounded corners each with an anthemion, on solid end-standards supported by foliage scrolls and centred by an anthemion to each side, each end-support on a Gothic-panelled rectangular platform and scrolled foliage feet with sunk brass castors
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) wide; 32 in. (83 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The table, with its Gothic-tablets and plinth-supported trestles framed by voluted trusses relates to patterns in T. King's The Cabinet-Maker's Sketch Book, 1835; while the trestles' Grecian-palms derive from an antique marble illustrated in C. H. Tatham's Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture drawn from the Originals in Rome and Other Parts of Italy during the years 1794, 1795 and 1796, 1799.

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