Lot Essay
This elegant table, with its concave recess, reeded edge and low three-quarter gallery, is related in design to the dressing-tables recorded in Gillow's Account Book under 11 August 1811 as 'a Handsome Mahogany five-drawer Dressing Table with rim and on turned reeded legs £6.16.6', illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, Vol. II, p. 382, fig. 500.
A similar dressing-table was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 5 June 1997, lot 88.
A similar dressing-table was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 5 June 1997, lot 88.