AN EARLY VICTORIAN EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT LIBRARY TABLE

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN EBONY-INLAID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT LIBRARY TABLE
The eared rectangular green-leather lined top, inlaid with scrolls to each corner, above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side, the angles mounted with ebonised lion-masks, on Ionic capitals and turned legs with stiff-leaf tops, fluted tapering legs and panelled blocks, on paw feet, the handles apparently original, the later lock stamped 'PARKES, WILLENHALL, ENGLAND UNION', regilt
28½ in. (72 cm.) high; 60 in. (152.5 cm.) wide; 40½ in. (183 cm.) deep

來源

Sir Philip Shelbourne (+), Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire, sold Christie's house sale, 25-26 October 1993, lot 67 (£17,825).
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 2 February 1995, lot 344.

拍品專文

A writing-table with closely related arrangement of legs and possibly by John Bellerby (1782-1827) of Mickleby, York, was sold in these Rooms, 18 November 1993, lot 187 (£58,700). It was illustrated in Recent Acquisitions 1994, Partridge Fine Arts Plc., no. 20, pp. 52-53. A sideboard with panelled frieze and related supports was supplied to James Fox (d. 1821) of Bramham Park, Yorkshire and almost certainly executed by John Bellerby. The sideboard is thought to correspond to an invoice for £21 that survives in Leeds Central Library. The Bramham sideboard was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 23 April 1988, lot 158.