Lot 344
344
A VICTORIAN EBONY-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE with eared rectangular green leather-lined top with scroll-inlaid border above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side, the angles mounted with ebonised lion masks, on Ionic capitals and turned legs with stiff-leaf tops, fluted tapering stems and panelled square blocks with claw feet, restorations, the later lock stamped PARKES, WILLENHALL, ENGLAND UNION

Details
A VICTORIAN EBONY-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY WRITING-TABLE with eared rectangular green leather-lined top with scroll-inlaid border above two mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side, the angles mounted with ebonised lion masks, on Ionic capitals and turned legs with stiff-leaf tops, fluted tapering stems and panelled square blocks with claw feet, restorations, the later lock stamped PARKES, WILLENHALL, ENGLAND UNION
60in. (152cm.) wide; 28½in. (72cm.) high; 40½in. (103cm.) deep
Provenance
The late Sir Philip Shelbourne, Myles Place, Salisbury, Wiltshire
sold Christie's house sale, 25 and 26 October 1993, lot 67

Lot Essay

Designed in the early 19th century 'antique' manner, its lion-mask tablets and fluted columnar legs terminating in lion-paws relate to patterns for sideboard-tables published by Thomas Sheraton in his Encyclopedia, 1804, and George Smith in his Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808

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