Lot Essay
With similarities to a library table illustrated in 18th century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection by Christopher Claxton Stevens and Stewart Whittington, p.171.
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A Regency mahogany brass mounted and inlaid library table
With renewal and restoration, in the manner of Louis le Gaigneur, the rectangular top inset with a black tooled leather panel with anthemion ornament of geometric broken outline, with spandrels inlaid with cut brass in foliate designs, within a foliate brass border, containing two brass moulded recessed panelled drawers in the frieze centred by a tablet with a mask with dummy drawers to the reverse, on dual baluster-turned columns and splayed legs with acanthus leaf ornament and brass paw caps and castors joined by a turned stretcher, stamped R.P under the tablets of the frieze to the back and front
47¼in. (120cm.) wide, 27½in. (70cm.) deep, 28½in. (72.5cm.) high
With renewal and restoration, in the manner of Louis le Gaigneur, the rectangular top inset with a black tooled leather panel with anthemion ornament of geometric broken outline, with spandrels inlaid with cut brass in foliate designs, within a foliate brass border, containing two brass moulded recessed panelled drawers in the frieze centred by a tablet with a mask with dummy drawers to the reverse, on dual baluster-turned columns and splayed legs with acanthus leaf ornament and brass paw caps and castors joined by a turned stretcher, stamped R.P under the tablets of the frieze to the back and front
47¼in. (120cm.) wide, 27½in. (70cm.) deep, 28½in. (72.5cm.) high
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