A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE

CIRCA 1815

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A REGENCY BRASS-INLAID ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE
Circa 1815
The rounded rectangular top above a frieze inlaid with stylized scrolling brass foliage, the canted octagonal shaft with gadrooned base cushion, on incurved quadripartite brass-inlaid plinth and brass paw feet with casters
29in. (74cm.) high, 53½in. (136cm.) wide, 42¼in. (108cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The pillar-supported table is designed in the early 19th century Grecian manner with an 'altar' plinth and brass claws, while its palm-flowered ribbon band of brass inlay is in the Louis Quatorze 'boulle' manner, and relates to a table supplied about 1820 for Tatton Park, Cheshire en suite with a pair of card tables (see Tatton Park Guide, 1987, p.10). George Smith, Upholder to the Prince Regent, issued a pattern for a related drawing-room 'loo' or central card table in his Cabinet-Makers and Upholsterers Guide, 1826 (pl. XLII).

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