Lot 150
150
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONY SERVING-TABLE
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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONY SERVING-TABLE

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONY SERVING-TABLE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With double-rod and pierced-fret gallery with pine-cone finials and trailing vines, above a breakfront bowfront and a panelled frieze enclosing three drawers, on ring-turned and reeded tapering legs headed by rectangular panels with foliate mounts, on ball feet, slightly reduced in depth
58 in. (147.5 cm.) high, including gallery; 123 in. (312.5 cm.) wide; 31½ in. (80 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (pl. 92) featured a related reed-enriched and six-legged 'Sideboard'. A related vine-wreathed rail appears on a sideboard, in the manner of one illustrated in Thomas Hope's, Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 24), that was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, 20 November 1987, lot 293. Related Grecian-fretted ebony inlay appears on an 'Egyptian-head' sideboard sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 16 November 1989, lot 113.
Crossed thrysus wands, like those on the gallery of the present lot, appear on the gallery of a serving-table in the manner of Thomas Hope, sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 9 June 2005, lot 241.

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