A REGENCY BRASS AND EBONISED-INLAID ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 45-50)

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A REGENCY BRASS AND EBONISED-INLAID ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE

The rectangular green leather-lined top with later pierced three-quarter gallery, the front with three mahogany-lined drawers inlaid with stars and central palmettes, the interiors of the drawers inlaid in rosewood, the back frieze with two conforming drawers simulated as three drawers, on pierced lyre-shaped end-supports joined by a turned stretcher on stepped platform bases, bun feet and castors, repair to the top of one lyre
39in. (99cm.) wide; 29¼in. (74cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 20 November 1981, lot 144

Lot Essay

The Grecian-lyre, Apollo's badge as god of poetry, proved an appropriate support for the early 19th Century trestle-ended writing-table. Amongst related tables with golden stringed lyres and brass gallery is one from the collection of Sir William Miles which was sold, Sotheby's London, 18 November 1991, lot 144 and which also features brass-inlay after the French manner and the star motif popularised by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807

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