Lot 15
15
A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHEVAL-SECRETAIRE, the square hinged fall-front inlaid with a central roundel and enclosing a fitted interior with black felt-lined writing-surface and two shelves, on trestle end-supports joined by a waved stretcher and on downswept legs 18½in. (47cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY CHEVAL-SECRETAIRE, the square hinged fall-front inlaid with a central roundel and enclosing a fitted interior with black felt-lined writing-surface and two shelves, on trestle end-supports joined by a waved stretcher and on downswept legs 18½in. (47cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high

Lot Essay

This pattern of a lady's secretaire, incorporated in a cheval-screen frame, derived from the late 18th Century French secretaire en portefeuille, which was also known at the period as a secretaire billet-doux. Thomas Shearer illustrated a related 'Lady's Writing Screen' in his Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, 1788, pl. 18 A related cheval-secretaire was sold by the Executors of the late Mrs Helen Langford Brooke, Mere Hall, Cheshire, Christie's house sale, 23 May 1994, lot 153

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