Lot 100
100
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PAINTED DRESSING-TABLE, the double-hinged rectangular top painted with two ovals of goddesses and putti, each in a geometric and beaded border, the whole banded with dog-tooth and naive laurel on a dark ground, one side enclosing a cedar-lined hinged writing-surface and wells, the other a fitted interior of geometrically-banded lidded and open wells below a mirror, with panelled frieze and on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors

Details
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PAINTED DRESSING-TABLE, the double-hinged rectangular top painted with two ovals of goddesses and putti, each in a geometric and beaded border, the whole banded with dog-tooth and naive laurel on a dark ground, one side enclosing a cedar-lined hinged writing-surface and wells, the other a fitted interior of geometrically-banded lidded and open wells below a mirror, with panelled frieze and on square tapering legs with brass caps and castors
23in. (58cm.) wide; 29½in. (75cm.) high, closed; 18in. (46cm.) deep
Provenance
Bought from Blairman at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, 1959, and invoiced on 14 June for #292

Lot Essay

An table of this model with differently contrasting veneers was sold from the collection of the late 1st Viscount Leverhulme, Anderson Galleries, New York, 9 February 1926 (=1st day), lot 103 ($275)
A cylinder-bureau painted with the same medallion of History writing on a tablet was advertised by Biggs of Maidenhead in Apollo, March 1966

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