Lot 108
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY TABLE
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY TABLE

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY METAMORPHIC LIBRARY TABLE
The rectangular double-hinged moulded top enclosing a red leather-lined ratcheted reading slope flanked by divided compartments on the right and an open compartment on the left, with a hinged well to the rear, above a mahogany-lined frieze drawer, on leaf-headed reeded legs, brass caps and castors, the drawer with printed paper label 'PURCHASED AT THE HAMILTON PALACE SALE 1919'
31¼ in. (79.5 cm.) high; 37¾ in. (96 cm.) wide; 34 in. (86.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Almost certainly bought by Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1852), Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, and by descent to Alfred, 13th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1940), sold Christie's house sale, Hamilton Palace, 5 or 19 November 1919.
Sir Tatton Sykes, Bt., Sledmere, Yorkshire.
By whom sold, Tennants, Aske Hall sale, Richmond, Yorkshire, 20-22 September 1994, lot 1246.
Literature
H. Montgomery-Massingberd & C. Simon Sykes, Great Houses of England and Wales, 1994, p. 345 [illustrated in situ in the library at Sledmere].
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 library-table, is likely to have been commissioned about 1820 for Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1852). Thomas Sheraton illustrated this form of hinged top table revealing a writing compartment in his Cabinet Dictionary, 1803, p. 71. The robust Grecian form of this table, with palm-wrapped and reed-gadrooned columnar legs, relates to a pattern in the 1820 Estimate Sketch Book, no. 3045 of Messrs. Gillow of London and Lancaster

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