AN ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID WALNUT AND EBONISED BUREAU AND STOOL, inlaid overall with pewter scrolls with flowerheads and geometric banding, the rectangular top with later inlaid monogram of LL for Leopold, Duke of Albany, within a garter surround and below a coronet, the hinged flap inset with three panels of putti and reclining goddesses and enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers, the lower part with nine drawers around an opening inset with a stool with panelled solid ends carved with a grimacing mask and with turned legs, on foliate bun feet, stencilled repeatedly D.1672 and labelled twice H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF ALBANY, the stand with a German label stating the provenance from Queen Victoria of England, reconstructed in the early 19th Century incorporating earlier elements

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AN ITALIAN IVORY-INLAID WALNUT AND EBONISED BUREAU AND STOOL, inlaid overall with pewter scrolls with flowerheads and geometric banding, the rectangular top with later inlaid monogram of LL for Leopold, Duke of Albany, within a garter surround and below a coronet, the hinged flap inset with three panels of putti and reclining goddesses and enclosing a fitted interior of pigeon-holes and drawers, the lower part with nine drawers around an opening inset with a stool with panelled solid ends carved with a grimacing mask and with turned legs, on foliate bun feet, stencilled repeatedly D.1672 and labelled twice H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF ALBANY, the stand with a German label stating the provenance from Queen Victoria of England, reconstructed in the early 19th Century incorporating earlier elements
55½in. (154cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high; 19½in. (49.5cm.) deep

Provenance

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1835-1934), youngest son of Queen Victoria
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 1 July 1982, lot 68

Lot Essay

Prince Leopold was created a knight of the Garter in 1873 and the monogram and garter were presumably added after this date

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