A MAHOGANY PARTNERS' PEDESTAL DESK, with eared rectangular brown leather-lined top above a fluted frieze flanked and divided by oval paterae and fitted with three drawers on each side, each with a lion-mask ring-handle below egg-and-dart, each pedestal with three drawers flanked by canted angles with a fluted tapering pilaster surmounted by a lion-mask and pendant rose, the base with a paw foot, the reverse with a panelled door, the plinth base edged with foliage, second half 19th Century | Christie's

Lot 125

125

A MAHOGANY PARTNERS' PEDESTAL DESK, with eared rectangular brown leather-lined top above a fluted frieze flanked and divided by oval paterae and fitted with three drawers on each side, each with a lion-mask ring-handle below egg-and-dart, each pedestal with three drawers flanked by canted angles with a fluted tapering pilaster surmounted by a lion-mask and pendant rose, the base with a paw foot, the reverse with a panelled door, the plinth base edged with foliage, second half 19th Century

Details

A MAHOGANY PARTNERS' PEDESTAL DESK, with eared rectangular brown leather-lined top above a fluted frieze flanked and divided by oval paterae and fitted with three drawers on each side, each with a lion-mask ring-handle below egg-and-dart, each pedestal with three drawers flanked by canted angles with a fluted tapering pilaster surmounted by a lion-mask and pendant rose, the base with a paw foot, the reverse with a panelled door, the plinth base edged with foliage, second half 19th Century
79¾in. (202.5cm.) wide; 30½in. (77.5cm.) high; 44in. (11.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 17 November 1988, lot 120.

Lot Essay

This 'Georgian' desk designed in the 'Chippendale' style combines features of the William Kent period, such as lion-masks, with neo-classical ornament of the Robert Adam period.

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