A GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

细节

A GEORGE III STYLE MAHOGANY LIBRARY TABLE
Second half 19th century
The oval gilt-tooled green leather-inset top with moulded edge with three frieze drawers to either side on curved pedestal supports fitted with cut-cornered panelled doors enclosing three drawers flanking arched recesses with further doors to the long sides enclosing shelves on plinth bases
28¼ in. (72 cm.) high, 72 in. (183 cm.) wide, 47¼ in. (120 cm.) deep

拍品专文

This desk is after a model supplied to Mereworth Castle, Kent which was sold Christie's, London, 23 May 1968, lot 119 and now belongs to the Bank of England (C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture: The Norman Adams Collection, 1983, p. 113). Thomas Sheraton published a design for a 'Library table' of similar form but with writing supports to each end in his Drawing Book of 1793, pl. 30. Another of this model was sold Christie's New York, 30 April 1997, lot 63.