拍品 95
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A REGENCY MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU with reeded rectangular top above a counter-balanced roll top inlaid with scrolled clasps to the angles, enclosing a fitted interior with green leather-lined sliding writing-surface and three mahogany-lined drawers, one fitted, and ten pigeonholes, above two further ebony-panelled mahogany-lined frieze drawers, on stop-reeded turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, the top and base associated, 19th Century

細節
A REGENCY MAHOGANY CYLINDER BUREAU with reeded rectangular top above a counter-balanced roll top inlaid with scrolled clasps to the angles, enclosing a fitted interior with green leather-lined sliding writing-surface and three mahogany-lined drawers, one fitted, and ten pigeonholes, above two further ebony-panelled mahogany-lined frieze drawers, on stop-reeded turned tapering legs with brass caps and castors, the top and base associated, 19th Century
42½in. (108cm.) wide; 41½in. (105.5cm.) high; 24in. (64cm.) deep

拍品專文

The tambour writing-table in the French manner was popularised by A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guides, 1778-94. This early 19th century example with reed-capped columnar legs is inlaid with an ebony band in the 'antique' or 'Etruscan' style