Lot Essay
The roll top desk pattern derives from Thomas Sheraton, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, London, 1802, pl. 47.
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A REGENCY BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND SATINWOOD BONHEUR DU JOUR
Inlaid overall with boxwood, ebonised and satinwood lines, the three-quarter baluster gallery on column supports above a shelf and a cylinder-bureau, enclosing a sliding writing-surface with ratcheted leather-lined panel and three arched recesses surrounded by four small drawers and five simulated drawers, and above a mahogany-lined drawer and a concave-fronted tambour cupboard, on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors, the metalwork apparently original, the drawer inscribed in pencil '26½ x 17¾ * HARRINGTON', restorations
48¾ in. (124 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep
Inlaid overall with boxwood, ebonised and satinwood lines, the three-quarter baluster gallery on column supports above a shelf and a cylinder-bureau, enclosing a sliding writing-surface with ratcheted leather-lined panel and three arched recesses surrounded by four small drawers and five simulated drawers, and above a mahogany-lined drawer and a concave-fronted tambour cupboard, on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors, the metalwork apparently original, the drawer inscribed in pencil '26½ x 17¾ * HARRINGTON', restorations
48¾ in. (124 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep