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AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-ELM GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-ELM GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN BURR-ELM GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE
The rounded rectangular top banded with boxwood chain inlay and crossbanded in tulipwood above a pair of panelled maple-lined frieze drawers, on Ionic capital-headed fluted tapering legs, brass caps and castors, refreshments to decoration, the handles original
28¾ in. (73 cm.) high; 52¼ in. (132.5 cm.) wide; 27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
By tradition, Osborne House, Isle of Wight.
Special notice
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 golden elm writing-table, with its gilt-enriched and parquetried elm and antique-fluted Ionic columned legs, is conceived in the robust Louis Seize style popularised by J. Braund's Illustrations of Furniture, 1858.

Osborne House was the marine pavilion on the Isle of Wight bought by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1845 from Lady Isabella Blachford. The London architect Thomas Cubitt (d. 1855), responsible for large parts of Pimlico, Bloomsbury and Belgravia, was commissioned to redecorate the interior.

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