Lot Essay
This desk follows a design for a 'Library Table' by Thomas Chippendale in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. edn., 1763, pl. LXXVII.
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A GEORGE II STYLE MAHOGANY PEDESTAL DESK
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular leather-lined top with incurved center and corners above a drawer to each end, each conforming pedestal with an arched panelled door to each side enclosing drawers or divides and with pendant foliate carved angles on a plinth base--29¾in. (76cm.) high, 72in. (183cm.) wide, 38in. (97cm.) deep
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular leather-lined top with incurved center and corners above a drawer to each end, each conforming pedestal with an arched panelled door to each side enclosing drawers or divides and with pendant foliate carved angles on a plinth base--29¾in. (76cm.) high, 72in. (183cm.) wide, 38in. (97cm.) deep