拍品專文
A design for a similar 'Lady's Cabinet-Writing Table' by Hepplewhite, was illustrated in The Cabinet-Maker's London Book of Prices, London, 1788, pl. 23, fig. 2.
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細節
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
The rectangular top with shaped three-quarter gallery, decorated with a musical trophy medallion above crossed laurel branches, above three graduated part cedar-lined small drawers, flanked on each side by a door enclosing a drawer, above a rectangular hinged blue leather-lined writing-surface and a fitted part cedar-lined frieze drawer, with two small drawers and a blue leather-lined writing-surface, on octagonal tapering legs headed by pinched collars, brass caps and castors, restorations to the gallery, the brass handles replaced
46 in. (117 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep
The rectangular top with shaped three-quarter gallery, decorated with a musical trophy medallion above crossed laurel branches, above three graduated part cedar-lined small drawers, flanked on each side by a door enclosing a drawer, above a rectangular hinged blue leather-lined writing-surface and a fitted part cedar-lined frieze drawer, with two small drawers and a blue leather-lined writing-surface, on octagonal tapering legs headed by pinched collars, brass caps and castors, restorations to the gallery, the brass handles replaced
46 in. (117 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep
來源
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 15 November 1996, lot 70 (£16,100).
注意事項
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