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

Details

A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted mahogany bureau plat
Probably English and possibly retailed by Wright and Mansfield, London, Third quarter 19th Century
The eared rectangular gilt-tooled brown leather-lined top above a central frieze drawer flanked on either side by two smaller drawers, with winged putto handles, the reverse with similar apparent drawers, the sides with pull-out slides above a foliate mount, on fluted tapering legs headed by spiral reeds and quiver capitals, on toupie feet
31 in. (78.7 cm.) high; 66½ in. (165 cm.) wide; 34½ in. (87.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A smaller bureau plat of the same design, stamped Wright and Mansfield, sold Christie's, London, 'Millden - A Scottish Lodge', 20 January 2005, lot 58 (£12,000). For a note on Wright and Mansfield, please see lot 531.

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