AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE
The rectangular leather-lined top above three simulated frieze drawers to each side, with a drawer to each end enclosing a ratcheted leather-lined writing-surface, on pierced end-supports joined by chamfered stretchers, each on a rectangular platform with down-turned feet, brass castors, one drawer locked, two handles replaced
32 in. (81.5 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 46 in. (117 cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The trestle-ended library-table, with its jewelled and chamfered pilasters tied by lozenge-fretted ribbons, reflects the mid-19th Century Elizabethan fashion as popularised by W. Blackie's The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant, 1853 (see E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Suffolk, 1977, p.511)

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