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A Regency rosewood and satinwood-banded cylinder desk
Inlaid with lines, the superstructure with a pierced three-quarter gallery, on turned column uprights, with a verre eglomise panel back depicting an urn flanked by griffins, the fall enclosing a fitted interior with pigeon holes and drawers and a sliding writing surface with a hinged ratcheted slope, fitted with two frieze drawers between shutter decorated angles, on gilt-heightened ring-turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, one interior drawer front later
32in. (82cm.) wide, 52in. (133.5cm.) high, 20in. (52cm.) deep
written in ink under the bottom of one interior drawer "Caroline MacDonald wishes Mrs Sebright a very Goodbye, I Haing (sic) having joined the Mail tonight". Mr Sainsbury has given a possible explanation for this, that Caroline MacDonald, a housemaid at the large house between Belfast N.I. and Holywood (where he purchased this rosewood roll-top desk in about 1955) was supervised by the housekeeper Mrs Sebright and she decided to leave by the Mail coach possibly to elope with the butler.
Inlaid with lines, the superstructure with a pierced three-quarter gallery, on turned column uprights, with a verre eglomise panel back depicting an urn flanked by griffins, the fall enclosing a fitted interior with pigeon holes and drawers and a sliding writing surface with a hinged ratcheted slope, fitted with two frieze drawers between shutter decorated angles, on gilt-heightened ring-turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, one interior drawer front later
32in. (82cm.) wide, 52in. (133.5cm.) high, 20in. (52cm.) deep
written in ink under the bottom of one interior drawer "Caroline MacDonald wishes Mrs Sebright a very Goodbye, I Haing (sic) having joined the Mail tonight". Mr Sainsbury has given a possible explanation for this, that Caroline MacDonald, a housemaid at the large house between Belfast N.I. and Holywood (where he purchased this rosewood roll-top desk in about 1955) was supervised by the housekeeper Mrs Sebright and she decided to leave by the Mail coach possibly to elope with the butler.