Lot 98
98
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND BOULLE MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE, the rectangular top with central rounded rectangular leather-lined writing-surface and foliate spandrels within a foliate border, above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers and two simulated drawers centred by a bearded mask, on panelled square tapering legs headed by lotus-leaf collars and with castors, repairs to underside of top, one drawer with oval printed label E.C., and the underside with indistinct fragmentary hand-written label

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND BOULLE MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE, the rectangular top with central rounded rectangular leather-lined writing-surface and foliate spandrels within a foliate border, above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers and two simulated drawers centred by a bearded mask, on panelled square tapering legs headed by lotus-leaf collars and with castors, repairs to underside of top, one drawer with oval printed label E.C., and the underside with indistinct fragmentary hand-written label
54½in. (138.5cm.) wide; 30in. (76cm.) high; 39¼in. (99.5cm.) deep
Provenance
Painshill Park, Surrey, in the late 19th Century

Lot Essay

There is a group of very similar library-tables of this type, of which several have a frieze centred by a type of wreathed river-god mount that is associated with the oeuvre of Louis Le Gaigneur (fl. circa 1815) of 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road (see: C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, pp. 170-171; one sold Christie's New York, 7 April 1990, lot 94; another offered Sotheby's London, 10 February 1989, lot 111, and re-offered in these Rooms, 9 April 1992, lot 100)

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