Details
A scarlet-tortoiseshell, brass-inlaid, ebonised and ormolu mounted writing table, 19th century
of serpentine outline, with a conforming shaped frieze decorated with
scroll supported cartouches and with a single drawer, on square tapering cabriole legs with applied female masks supporting leafy headresses and with further acanthus scrolls, on pierced acanthus sabot feet, some losses -- 60in. (163cm.) wide
See Illustration
of serpentine outline, with a conforming shaped frieze decorated with
scroll supported cartouches and with a single drawer, on square tapering cabriole legs with applied female masks supporting leafy headresses and with further acanthus scrolls, on pierced acanthus sabot feet, some losses -- 60in. (163cm.) wide
See Illustration
Provenance
By repute, previously owned by the late Dame Cathereine Cookson