AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY AND CONTRA-BOULLE INLAID LADIES WRITING-TABLE, retailed by G. I. Morant, London, the rectangular top inset with a red leather surface with ormolu-cast edge above a sprung frieze drawer with concealed lock, the sides each with a Bacchic mask, stamped twice to the underside G.I. MORANT, 1 NEW BOND ST., and to the underside of each leg IEANDON, on cabriole legs headed by grotesque masks, on acanthus cast claw feet,mid-19th Century

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY AND CONTRA-BOULLE INLAID LADIES WRITING-TABLE, retailed by G. I. Morant, London, the rectangular top inset with a red leather surface with ormolu-cast edge above a sprung frieze drawer with concealed lock, the sides each with a Bacchic mask, stamped twice to the underside G.I. MORANT, 1 NEW BOND ST., and to the underside of each leg IEANDON, on cabriole legs headed by grotesque masks, on acanthus cast claw feet,mid-19th Century
38½in. (97.8cm.) wide; 28in. (71cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Messrs. George Morant and Son of New Bond Street, House-decorators, Carvers and Gilders to King William IV, provided related French-style furniture, inlaid in the 'boulle' manner, for Queen Adelaide's apartment at Mamhead, Devon in the late 1830s (see Country Life, 2 June 1955). G. I .Morant succeeded to his father's business in 1839 and was granted the Royal Appointment as cabinet-maker to Queen Victoiai in 1842. This table, with its lambrequin drapery displaying a stylised L (Louis) cypher bears the brand of the Parisian Ebeniste, marqueteur, Jeandon, who established his business in Boulevard Bourdon in 1842, and was retailed in London by G. I. Morant.

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