CIRCA 1825

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A GEORGE IV BROWN OAK AND OAK RECTANGULAR WRITING-TABLE
CIRCA 1825
In the gothic taste, the moulded top inset with green baize, above two frieze drawers, inset with blind tracery, the trestle-end supports on octagonal shaped block feet
29 in. (74 cm.) high; 66 in. (168 cm.) wide; 36 in. (92 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The oak table, with plinth-supported trestles, is designed in the antique/Elizabethan fashion introduced in the 1820s by architects such as Richard Bridgens (d.1846), who designed related tables for the Jacobean mansion Aston Hall, Birmingham (V. Glenn, "George Bullock, Richard Bridgens and James Watts Regency Furnishing Schemes", Furniture History Society Journal, vol. XV, 1979, pp.54-67 and pls. 101A-103B). A related Elizabethan table pattern, with Gothic arched trestles and foliated frieze, was published in T. King's Cabinet Maker's Sketch Book, 1835.

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