POSSIBLY BY HENRY HOLLAND, LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A LATE GEORGE III EBONISED-INLAID MAHOGANY PEDESTAL WRITING-TABLE
POSSIBLY BY HENRY HOLLAND, LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rounded rectangular brass three-quarter galleried top above three simulated frieze drawers and two cedar-lined drawers at each side, two drawers with divisions, on a reeded baluster shaft and downswept leaf-carved reeded legs with scroll feet, the pads on the feet later, originally with castors
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 37¾ in. (96 cm.) wide; 32 in. (81 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 October 1998, lot 381.

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Lot Essay

The brass-railed writing-table with reeded 'vase' pillar on an 'Apollo' palm-wrapped 'claw' terminating in flowered volutes, reflects the French antique fashion promoted by Thomas Sheraton's publications around 1800. A related leather-topped and galleried table was supplied at this period for Southill Park, Bedfordshire (G. Jackson-Stops, 'Southill Park', Country Life, 28 April 1994, p. 66, fig. 9). A similar quadripartite base pedestal table with gilt-enriched base and possibly designed by Henry Holland for Francis, 5th Duke of Bedford, is at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire (see 'The Racing Room', Woburn Abbey [Guide], 1987).

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