Lot 182
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND HOLLY LIBRARY TABLE
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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND HOLLY LIBRARY TABLE

BY G. J. MORANT

Details
AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK AND HOLLY LIBRARY TABLE
By G. J. Morant
With red leather-lined top above a scrolling-foliate frieze on all four sides, one long side enclosing three mahogany-lined drawers, on twin-column foliage-carved baluster end-supports, on rectangular platforms inlaid with foliage and joined by a turned baluster stretcher, on sunk castors, inscribed in chalk 'MAJ ROBB' and with indinstinct brand 'G. I. MORANT NEW BOND ST.'
30¼ in. (77 cm.) high; 56¾ in. (144 cm.) wide; 29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied to M. P. W. Boulton and by descent to
Major Eustace Robb, Tew Park, Great Tew, Oxfordshire, sold Christie's house sale, 27-29 May 1987, lot 162.
Special notice
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 library-table, with palm-wrapped pillars, was designed by G. J. Morant to harmonise with Bullock's 'Oak Sofa Table richly inlaid with Holly' (lot 170). Its is wreathed with the same meander of trefoiled foliage as on the sofa-table and on the 'Grecian' furnishings and fabrics in Bullock's Tenterden Street premises, illustrated in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1816 (P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, 1984, p. 108, pl. 85).
This brand was in use by Morant between 1841/2 and 1851.

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