AN ANGLO-INDIAN AMBOYNA AND EBONY WORK-TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN AMBOYNA AND EBONY WORK-TABLE
Early 19th Century
The moulded rectangular hinged top enclosing a sandlewood interior with partitions and ivory lids inlaid with ebony, two pin cushions and a spindle, above a square flared shaft, on a rounded square base with sunken panels to the sides, gadrooned bun feet, the lock stamped 'BRAMAH PATENT'.
27 in. (70 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The table with its Etruscan-black inlay has a tapered pedestal on a Grecian stepped and stump-footed plinth, which relates to a pattern in R. Brown's Rudiments of Drawing, 1822.
J.C. Loudon (d. 1843) illustrated a related pattern for a 'neat' tea or work-table in his Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1833, fig. 612.

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