THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(Lots 70-71)
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE
Details
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE
The pierced galleried oval top inlaid with a posy of flowers on a mirror-veneered ground and above a beaded and tasselled frieze, incorporating a frieze drawer to one end and green leather-lined writing-slide, on foliate C-scroll and satyr-mask headed cabriole legs joined by a kidney-shaped stretcher with further foliate-sprays, on foliate claw feet, restorations, re-mounted, part 18th Century
23¼in. (59cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep
The pierced galleried oval top inlaid with a posy of flowers on a mirror-veneered ground and above a beaded and tasselled frieze, incorporating a frieze drawer to one end and green leather-lined writing-slide, on foliate C-scroll and satyr-mask headed cabriole legs joined by a kidney-shaped stretcher with further foliate-sprays, on foliate claw feet, restorations, re-mounted, part 18th Century
23¼in. (59cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 26 March 1981, lot 76