BY THOMAS MASH, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD
BY THOMAS MASH, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With pedimented gallery carved with foliage and raised rectangular platforms to each side, above two concave-moulded frieze drawers flanked on each side by a conforming simulated drawer, above a pair of doors with paired reeded volutes with paw feet, the left enclosing a drawer and two sliding trays, the right enclosing a cellaret drawer, each on a plinth base, with stencilled mark 'FROM THOS MASH / Upholsterer & ... 102 and 105 Wardour Street SOHO', with paper storage label inscribed in pencil 'Mrs H. S. Osment'
50½ in. (128 cm.) high; 102 in. (259 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Thomas Mash of 102 Wardour Street, Soho, London was an upholsterer and furniture-broker recorded between 1829 and 1839. His stamp is also found on a secretaire-bookcase and a Regency mahogany breakfast-table both sold at Christie's, London, 27 November 1969, lot 145 and 7 April 1983, lot 73 respectively (The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, Leeds, 1986, pp. 582-583).

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