THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A REGENCY MAHOGANY EBONY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE, possibly by John Bellerby of Mickleby, the rectangular green leather-lined top with moulded edge above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side flanked by lion-masks, on stop-fluted turned tapering legs headed by composite capitals and with square plinth collars above massive paw feet, one plinth damaged and some mouldings detached, with contemporary mahogany leather-lined removable reading-slope

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY EBONY AND EBONISED WRITING-TABLE, possibly by John Bellerby of Mickleby, the rectangular green leather-lined top with moulded edge above three mahogany-lined frieze drawers to each side flanked by lion-masks, on stop-fluted turned tapering legs headed by composite capitals and with square plinth collars above massive paw feet, one plinth damaged and some mouldings detached, with contemporary mahogany leather-lined removable reading-slope
61¾in. (157cm.) wide; 33in. (84cm.) high; 38¼in. (97cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A large sideboard with panelled frieze and on almost identical supports to the present lot was supplied to James Fox (d.1821) of Bramham Park, Yorkshire, almost certainly by John Bellerby (1782-1827) of Mickleby, York. The sideboard is thought to correspond to an invoice for (21 that survives in Leeds Central Library. The Bramham sideboard lacks the stop-fluting in the lower part of the legs but the design of the legs, including the lion-mask panel, is otherwise identical to the present lot.
The Bramham sideboard was sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 23 April 1988, lot 158

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