CIRCA 1840-50

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND SATINWOOD SERPENTINE BUREAU PLAT
CIRCA 1840-50
With a green leather-lined top and three frieze drawers with opposing false drawers, the side panels with bearded masks, on foliate mounted cabriole legs with similar sabot feet, labelled to the underside 'FORT WILLIAM/NO 60/1948'
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 55 in. (140 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This elegantly serpentined bureau plat is in the Louis XV style promoted by Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1845), the celebrated dealer and retailer or marchand-mercier, of Hanway Street, who traded in 'Foreign China [&] Furniture' from 1805. This fashion was also adopted by retailing firms, such as Edwards & Roberts, who had premises in Wardour Street in 1854, who also traded in antiques, using their stamp on new and old pieces that passed through their workshops. A similar bureau-plat, stamped 'Edwards & Roberts' was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 2 April 1993, lot 45.
This same model of bureau plat was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 27 November 2003, lot 83 (£10,755).

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