AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK GOTHIC WRITING-TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK GOTHIC WRITING-TABLE

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK GOTHIC WRITING-TABLE
The rounded rectangular hinged top enclosing a later red material-lined writing-surface, above a fitted frieze drawer and blind Gothic arches on all sides, enclosing a fitted drawer, with an ink drawer on the right-hand side, on detachable octagonal legs headed by foliate-carved spandrels, the turned feet with sunk castors, one lock stamped 'T MUNDY AGENT NETTLEFOLD VR PATENT' below a crown, the other stamped 'VR BARRONS PATENT'
29¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide; 16 (41 cm.) deep
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VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium when purchased by non-EU purchasers.

Lot Essay

The Gothic forms of this sturdy chamfer-legged table can be related to the patterns for bedroom and library furniture executed in 'light oak' in the 16th Century manner and illustrated in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts in the late 1820s (see P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, London, 1984, pls. 169 and 173). A Tudor example of a small hinge-topped table was illustrated in H. Shaw, Specimens of Ancient Furniture, 1836 (pl. XIX).

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