A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY

The rectangular leather-lined top with rounded corners, above three frieze drawers to each side, the frieze carved throughout with Greek key, the corners with lion mask and ring mounts on turned fluted tapering legs and casters headed by foliage (one drawer relined)-30in. (76cm.) high, 66in. (168cm.) wide, 38½in. (98cm.) deep

Provenance

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Further details

A nearly identical table appears in a photograph of the Drawing Room at Scotney Castle, Kent, reproduced in C. Hussey, English Country House: Later Georgian 1800-1840, p. 228, fig. 439; another from the collection of Lietenant-Colonel S.G. Gold Schmidt, Kerfield House, Cheshireshire is illustrated in M. Harris and Sons, A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, Part III, p. 406. Other tables of this model were sold by Christie's London, 6 July 1989, Lot 60; Phillip's London, 10 February 1987, Lot 87, and Sotheby's New York, 24-25 April 1987, Lot 262.

Lot Essay

A nearly identical table appears in a photograph of the Drawing Room at Scotney Castle, Kent, reproduced in C. Hussey, English Country House: Late Georgian 1800-1840, p. 228, fig. 439; another from the collection of Lieutenant-Colonel S.G. Goldschmidt, Kerfield House, Cheshireshire is illustrated in M. Harris and Sons, A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, part III, p. 406. Other tables of this model were sold by Christie's London, 6 July 1989, lot 60; Phillip's London, 10 February 1987, lot 87, and Sotheby's New York, 24-25 April 1987, lot 262.