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
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