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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The circular leather-inset top above a frieze fitted with four drawers and four false drawers on a ring-turned pedestal and splayed tripartite legs on brass feet and casters, with Bramah locks, stamped W. PRIEST 17 & 24 WATER ST/BLACK FRIARS - 29½in. (75cm.) high, 42in. (107cm.) diameter
W. Priest, auctioneer, appraiser and upholsterer, is recorded at 17 and 24 Water Street, London from 1837 - 1839. Many known pieces of furniture bear his stamp or trade label at this address. Labels from his Tudor Street address describe his business as a 'Furniture Warehouse'. It is therefore probable that Priest was also selling secondhand items; labelled furniture dates from c. 1790 to the mid-Victorian period. (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, p. 717).
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The circular leather-inset top above a frieze fitted with four drawers and four false drawers on a ring-turned pedestal and splayed tripartite legs on brass feet and casters, with Bramah locks, stamped W. PRIEST 17 & 24 WATER ST/BLACK FRIARS - 29½in. (75cm.) high, 42in. (107cm.) diameter
W. Priest, auctioneer, appraiser and upholsterer, is recorded at 17 and 24 Water Street, London from 1837 - 1839. Many known pieces of furniture bear his stamp or trade label at this address. Labels from his Tudor Street address describe his business as a 'Furniture Warehouse'. It is therefore probable that Priest was also selling secondhand items; labelled furniture dates from c. 1790 to the mid-Victorian period. (G. Beard and C. Gilbert, eds., The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, p. 717).