LATE 19TH CENTURY, REDUCED IN WIDTH

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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY PARTNER'S PEDESTAL DESK
LATE 19TH CENTURY, REDUCED IN WIDTH
The shaped rectangular gilt-tooled tan leather-lined top with canted angles, above a fretwork frieze enclosing two drawers to each side, with four graduated drawers on each side of each pedestal, the ends with serpentine simulated drawers, the angles with foliate-carved scrolled corbels, on a moulded plinth base, the kneehole previously with further embellishment
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 78 in. (198 cm.) wide; 69 in. (175 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

With its ribbon-fretted frieze and flower-festooned and truss-scrolled pilasters, the desk is designed in the George II fashion illustrated in Thomas Chippendale's Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. A closely related desk but with differing fretwork frieze and kneehole carving, was in the collection of William Randolph Hearst and later sold by Walter P. Chrysler, Parke Bernet, New York, 30 April 1960, lot 268. It is illustrated in H. Hayward (ed.), World Furniture, London, 1965, p. 134, fig. 495.

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