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MID-19TH CENTURY
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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BREAKFRONT-BOOKCASE
Mid-19th century
The pierced swan's neck pediment above a key-carved frieze above two pairs of glazed doors each with shaped mullions carved with an urn surmounted above a stylized heart centered by a palmette and flanked by arches with laurel swags and a patera below, each door enclosing a shelved interior, the base with a central secretaire drawer enclosing a fitted interior with mahogany-lined drawers and a central satinwood-framed pigeonhole, above four graduated drawers, flanked on either side by a cabinet door above four graduated drawers, on plinth base, with chalk numbers to the reverse 05125/2
110½in. (280.5cm.) high, 87in. (221cm.) wide, 23in. (58.5cm.) deep
Mid-19th century
The pierced swan's neck pediment above a key-carved frieze above two pairs of glazed doors each with shaped mullions carved with an urn surmounted above a stylized heart centered by a palmette and flanked by arches with laurel swags and a patera below, each door enclosing a shelved interior, the base with a central secretaire drawer enclosing a fitted interior with mahogany-lined drawers and a central satinwood-framed pigeonhole, above four graduated drawers, flanked on either side by a cabinet door above four graduated drawers, on plinth base, with chalk numbers to the reverse 05125/2
110½in. (280.5cm.) high, 87in. (221cm.) wide, 23in. (58.5cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute purchased from Christie's London, circa 1926.
Rotherfield Park, Hampshire.
Rotherfield Park, Hampshire.