Lot 410
410
A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE inlaid overall with satinwood and bird's eye maple, the upper section with a pair of Gothic-glazed doors enclosing two shelves, the inverted breakfront lower section with secretaire-drawer enclosing a satin-lined interior enclosing red velvet-lined writing-surface and mahogany-lined drawers, above a further pair of doors enclosing two cedar and mahogany-lined drawers and a shelf, and flanked by tapering pilasters with ormolu Egyptian masks, on square tapering feet

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A REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE inlaid overall with satinwood and bird's eye maple, the upper section with a pair of Gothic-glazed doors enclosing two shelves, the inverted breakfront lower section with secretaire-drawer enclosing a satin-lined interior enclosing red velvet-lined writing-surface and mahogany-lined drawers, above a further pair of doors enclosing two cedar and mahogany-lined drawers and a shelf, and flanked by tapering pilasters with ormolu Egyptian masks, on square tapering feet
30¾in. (78cm.) wide; 53¼in. (160.5cm.) high; 19½in. (49.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A calamander secretaire of this pattern, including the distinctive roundel and line inlay, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (no: W.15-1930; see: D. Fitzgerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1967, no. 137)
Another secretaire of the Victoria and Albert model was sold from the collection of G.S. Morris, Esq., in these Rooms, 10 May 1973, lot 118, and is illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 272, fig. 2

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