A REGENCY POLLARD OAK AND ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE

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A REGENCY POLLARD OAK AND ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE
The rounded rectangular twin-flap crossbanded top inlaid with oak stringing, above a pair of frieze drawers to one side and a pair of simulated frieze drawers to the reverse, on lyre end-supports, on downswept feet joined by a stretcher, with brass paw caps and castors, repaired break to one leg, the handles replaced, one drawer previously with divisions, the slide formerly with sliding work-basket, now converted to a slide
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 49¾ in. (126.5 cm.) wide, open; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The table is designed in the early 19th century Grecian manner with 'poetic' trestles comprised of 'Apollo' lyres on scrolled 'claws'. Its patriotic 'native wood' veneer of fine marble-figured oak was also popularised at this period by cabinet-makers such as George Bullock of Liverpool and London, and lauded in Rudolph Ackermann's, Repository of Arts of 1816.

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