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A GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE, the rectangular red leather-lined top with brass-inlaid foliate spandrels and edged with acanthus, the frieze with two mahogany-lined panelled frieze drawers flanking a grotesque mask and pendant foliate mount, the reverse with simulated drawers and centred by a conforming mask, on square tapering panelled legs

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A GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD WRITING-TABLE, the rectangular red leather-lined top with brass-inlaid foliate spandrels and edged with acanthus, the frieze with two mahogany-lined panelled frieze drawers flanking a grotesque mask and pendant foliate mount, the reverse with simulated drawers and centred by a conforming mask, on square tapering panelled legs
56in.(142cm.)wide; 30in.(76cm.)high; 38in.(96.5cm.)deep

Lot Essay

See note to lot 93.

The central tablet, mounted with the mask of a river-god wreathed in fronds, relates to a group of Regency library tables in the Louis XIV 'antique' style, associated with the oeuvre of Louis Le Gaigneur (fl. circa 1815) of 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road. Cf: C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century Furniture, the Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 170-1; one sold Christie's, New York, 7 April 1990, lot 94; another offered Sotheby's, 10 February 1989, lot 111 and re-offered in these Rooms, 9 April 1992, lot 100

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