Lot 176
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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE, the rectangular crossbanded top with foliate edge lined with gilt-tooled green leather, above two short frieze drawers with foliate cartouches at the angles and centre, on tapering end-supports with scrolling acanthus and terminating in foliate paw feet

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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT WRITING-TABLE, the rectangular crossbanded top with foliate edge lined with gilt-tooled green leather, above two short frieze drawers with foliate cartouches at the angles and centre, on tapering end-supports with scrolling acanthus and terminating in foliate paw feet
48½in (123cm.) wide; 28¼in. (72cm) high; 28¼in. (72cm) deep

Lot Essay

A related pattern for a Drawing-room writing-table designed in the 'antique' manner, with plinth-supported trestles on bacchic lion-paws, featured as plate 84 in Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, issued by George Smith (d.1826), Upholder to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV

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