CIRCA 1820

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD LIBRARY TABLE
CIRCA 1820
The top crossbanded and inset with a green leather writing-surface, above a frieze enclosing fall fronts to either long side, the end-supports with scroll brackets and splayed supports, on ormolu paw feet and castors joined by twin stretchers, the end-supports altered in height by 1½ in. (4 cm.), later handles
29½ in. (75 cm.) high; 75½ in. (192 cm.) wide; 39 in. (99.5 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

The table's Grecian pattern of truss and plinth-supported pilasters on bacchic palm-wrapped lion-paws was popularised by an 1804 'sofa-table' design in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808 (pl. 84).
A related library table, with paired pilasters and stretchers on similar-carved feet, was formerly at Mere Hall, Cheshire and is likely to have been supplied in the 1820's by Gillows of Lancaster (sold by Mrs. Langford Brooke, Mere Hall, Christie's house sale, 23 May 1974, lot 105).

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