A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PLATE STAND, the top with a well and spindle-galleried rounded end divided by a carrying-handle, on turned tapering baluster legs and tapering feet

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PLATE STAND, the top with a well and spindle-galleried rounded end divided by a carrying-handle, on turned tapering baluster legs and tapering feet
21¼in. (54cm.) wide; 28½in. (72.5cm.) high; 13¾in. (35cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A plate stand of similar shape was sold by the Earl of Harewood, Harewood House, Leeds, Christie's house sale, 3 October 1988, lot 170. It is illustrated in P. Macquoid & R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol.III, p.163, fig.4.
A plate stand with less elegantly splayed legs was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 15 February 1991, lot 129.

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