A REGENCY MAHOGANY CARLTON HOUSE DESK

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CARLTON HOUSE DESK
The D-shaped top with stepped superstructure of a brass gallery above two columns of three mahogany-lined small drawers flanked by concave-headed cupboards, the ratcheted green leather-lined writing-slope flanked on each side by two further drawers, above three frieze drawers, on turned tapering fluted legs with later ormolu caps, the handles replaced
40½ in. (103 cm.) high; 55 in. (140 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 18 February 1972, lot 74 (to Partridge).

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拍品專文

Both Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co and Thomas Sheraton issued patterns for this popular form of 'Writing Table', known as a Carlton House desk in The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (pl. LX). One illustrated in the 1798 Estimate Sketch Book of Gillows of London and Lancaster also features curved doors inlaid with tablets with hollowed corners as in the present example, although the former's doors were hinged at the opposite side (see L. Boynton (ed.), Gillow Furniture Designs, Royston, 1995, fig. 50).