A REGENCY EBONY, MAPLE AND MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE

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A REGENCY EBONY, MAPLE AND MARQUETRY WRITING-TABLE

The rounded rectangular top inlaid with a foliate arabesque border, above a plain frieze with two panelled cedar-lined drawers flanked by scrolled lotus-leaf volutes supporting Greek-key inlaid end-sections, the reverse with two simulated drawers, on a reeded spreading shaft with gadrooned base and circular platform, the channelled tapering downswept legs carved with scrolled lotus-leaves and domed maple patera, on brass claw feet and castors
53¾in. (136.5cm.) wide; 28¾in. (73cm.) high; 31in. (79cm.) deep

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This writing-table is designed in the early 19th Century Grecian manner with palm-wrapped trusses supporting rounded ends, which are inlaid with a Grecian ribbon-fret in Etruscan-black ebony. Its arabesque inlay relates to the documented oeuvre of Banting, France & Co. of St. James's Street, who supplied related brass-inlaid furniture to the Earl of Bristol for Ickworth Park, Suffolk between 1817 and 1829

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