AN ENGLISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY LIBRARY TABLE, the bow-ended rectangular top inlaid in ebonised and boxwood lines with a foliate spray to each end, with stiff leaf collar above a panelled frieze inlaid with concentric circles and lotus-leaves, fitted with two mahogany-lined frieze drawers, the waisted end-supports with central foliate carved panel between turned Corinthian columns, joined by a similar turned columnar stretcher with central panelled block, above a Greek-key plinth and acanthus carved arched block feet with brass castors, the inside of right-hand drawer with paper label printed G. Trollope & Sons, inscribed in ink 2713, circa 1870

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AN ENGLISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY LIBRARY TABLE, the bow-ended rectangular top inlaid in ebonised and boxwood lines with a foliate spray to each end, with stiff leaf collar above a panelled frieze inlaid with concentric circles and lotus-leaves, fitted with two mahogany-lined frieze drawers, the waisted end-supports with central foliate carved panel between turned Corinthian columns, joined by a similar turned columnar stretcher with central panelled block, above a Greek-key plinth and acanthus carved arched block feet with brass castors, the inside of right-hand drawer with paper label printed G. Trollope & Sons, inscribed in ink 2713, circa 1870
50¼in. (127.5cm.) wide; 28¾in. (73cm.) high; 26in. (66cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed in the Renaissance style of the 1860s, these richly inlaid and carved library-tables match one in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and are similar to one exhibited at the International Exhibition in Paris 1867 by Messrs George Trollope & Sons, London
Art Journal, Catalogue of the Paris Exhibition, 1867, p.36
S. Jervis, Victoria and Edwardian Decorative Art, London 1972, p.46

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