Lot Essay
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FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Details
An English mahogany wash stand
First half 19th Century
The later rectangular top with two transferprinted bowls, two transferprinted Wedgwood soap dishes, two associated cut-glass glasses and decanters, above ring-turned baluster-shaped supports joined by an undertier with two transferprinted jugs, on bun feet, adapted into a wash stand
79.5cm. high x 95cm. wide x 47.5cm. deep
First half 19th Century
The later rectangular top with two transferprinted bowls, two transferprinted Wedgwood soap dishes, two associated cut-glass glasses and decanters, above ring-turned baluster-shaped supports joined by an undertier with two transferprinted jugs, on bun feet, adapted into a wash stand
79.5cm. high x 95cm. wide x 47.5cm. deep
Provenance
By repute Willem Frederik Lodewijk Baron (van Welderen) Rengers (1789-1859). He was governer of Groningen from 1830 till 1848 and commissioner to the Queen in Groningen from 1848 till 1850.
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