Lot 200
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY FOUR-TIER REVOLVING BOOKCASE-ON-STAND
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A REGENCY MAHOGANY FOUR-TIER REVOLVING BOOKCASE-ON-STAND

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY FOUR-TIER REVOLVING BOOKCASE-ON-STAND
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With four tiers, each with leather book-spines, on a circular base enclosing two frieze drawers, on a baluster shaft with tripod base and brass caps and castors, repaired break to one leg, the handles largely replaced
61½ in. (155.5 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 7 July 1988, lot 91.
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Lot Essay

A pattern for a graduated five-tiered 'circular movable bookcase' standing on a table base, featured in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts in March, 1810, and corresponds to a bookcase sold at Phillips, Son & Neale, 15 May 1967, lot 1964.
A closely related four-tier library table is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, rev. ed., London, 1965, p. 83, fig. 197.

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