EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SCOTTISH

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY, ROSEWOOD AND EBONISED FOUR-TIER TRIPOD BOOKSTAND
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SCOTTISH
With circular revolving graduating tiers, each with book-spine divisions and marbled paper-covered interior, with globe finial, the table section with four simulated drawers, one plain part ash-lined drawer and one writing-drawer with an ink-drawer, on a turned baluster column and hipped downswept legs with brass paw caps and castors, the handles replaced
77 in. (196 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) diameter

Provenance

The late Reverend William Neve Mouteith and by family tradition formerly at Largo House, Upper Largo, Fife.

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Lot Essay

Messrs. Morgan and Sanders patent for a related dumbwaiter type 'moveable bookcase' featured in R. Ackermann's, The Repository of Arts, 1810. The brand of William Priest, who established his Blackfriars 'Office & Library Furniture Warehouse' in 1837, has been recorded on another of these tables with tiered bookshelves (sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 20 September, 2001, lot 23).

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