A GEORGE III SATINBIRCH WORK-TABLE

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A GEORGE III SATINBIRCH WORK-TABLE
Banded overall with ebony lines, the hinged leather-lined ratcheted top with later removable book-stop and beige pleated-silk rising screen to the reverse, above a frieze drawer and a sliding basket with conforming material, on square tapering legs with later brass caps and leather castors, reveneered
29 in. (74.5 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A pattern for a related lady's writing-table with fire-screen features in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (part III, pl. XXXLII). This multi-purpose table, in golden satinwood banded with Etruscan-black fillets, closely relates to one presented to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1927 (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 168).

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