PROBABLY ENGLISH, RETAILED BY WRIGHT & MANSFIELD, LONDON, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted mahogany bureau plat
Probably English, Retailed by Wright & Mansfield, London, Third quarter 19th Century
The rectangular top with protruding corners, inset with a gilt-tooled black leather writing surface, above a central drawer, the pulls cast with winged putti suspending a laurel swag, above a kneehole, flanked by two similar drawers, the sides each with a pull-out writing slide, the reverse with similar false drawers, the protruding angles mounted with a quiver of arrows, on tapering stop-fluted straight legs, stamped variously WRIGHT & MANSFIELD and 104 NEW BOND ST
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 67 in. (170.2 cm.) wide; 34.5 in. (87.6 cm.) deep

拍品專文

Wright and Mansfield were one of the leading retailers and interior decorators of the late 19th century. Notable for their Adam revival interiors at Guisachan, near Inverness and the Louis XVI-style suite of rooms at Brook House, London, their work was shown extensively at the Great Exhibition of 1862 and the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The company ceased trading in 1887.

A smaller version of this bureau plat, with spirally-fluted rather than straight-fluted leg collars and also retailed by Wright and Mansfield, sold Christie's, London, 'Millden - A Scottish Lodge', 20 January 2005, lot 58 (£12,000).